as in minstrel
a person who writes poetry
Emily Dickinson is famous as the poet who rarely left the house but often journeyed to the depths of the human heart
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Recent Examples of poet
The celebrated poet and novelist has a new memoir, The Flower Bearers, on the way — a moving account of her life's most powerful love and most immense loss, compounded into the same moment in time.
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Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
Join the group for fresh brews, local poets and unforgettable vibes.
—Andrea Manes, Oc Register, 11 Sep. 2025
The following week, festivalgoers can catch Apple TV+’s documentary Come See Me in the Good Light, which tells the love story of poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley amid Gibson’s battle with terminal cancer.
—Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
Joining the collection soon will be new site-specific works created by the artist collective RojoNegro (composed of Noé Martínez and María Sosa), sculptor Max Hooper Schneider and poet, artist and chef Precious Okoyomon.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
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Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
Join the group for fresh brews, local poets and unforgettable vibes.
—Andrea Manes, Oc Register, 11 Sep. 2025
The following week, festivalgoers can catch Apple TV+’s documentary Come See Me in the Good Light, which tells the love story of poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley amid Gibson’s battle with terminal cancer.
—Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
Joining the collection soon will be new site-specific works created by the artist collective RojoNegro (composed of Noé Martínez and María Sosa), sculptor Max Hooper Schneider and poet, artist and chef Precious Okoyomon.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poet
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Like many such venues across America, the Kempner also hosted lectures, minstrel shows, musicals, operas, plays and vaudeville acts, along with community events such as school graduations.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Aug. 2025
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His grandfather Daniel was a miner who would perish in an underground accident, and his great uncle George owned a minstrel show that toured Western mining camps.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
31 July 2025
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The Last Viking, the latest collaboration between Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen and his longtime muses Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, is a wild, darkly comic fable about brotherhood, identity and the limits of sanity.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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Following that fiasco, Ansari began work on directing a new feature inspired by yet another sociological muse.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
7 Sep. 2025
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Lockwood, who’s been erroneously pegged as an internet bard while managing to craft a literary project that is much bigger than anything Zuckerberg hath wrought, has a new gift for us.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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But Frost, who attended Harvard, lived for a time in England and taught for many years at Amherst College, was hardly an unpolished rustic bard.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Poet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poet. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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