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 night’s most overt performances addressing the current crises came from Palestinian American and Sudanese American poets Noor Hindi and Safia Elhillo.
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Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
Paul Mescal, 29, stars as the popular playwright and poet.
—Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
Castro awarded Chávez Cuba’s highest honor, the Order of José Martí, named after a 19th-century poet—a leader in Cuba’s movement for independence from Spain.
—Vivian Salama, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2026
Bareilles was joined by AWFC co-president Allyson Newman for a wide-ranging conversation about Bareilles’ involvement in IndieWire Honoree Ryan White’s Apple documentary about the late poet and activist Andrea Gibson and Bareilles’ approach to her entire artistic career.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 11 Jan. 2026
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Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
Paul Mescal, 29, stars as the popular playwright and poet.
—Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
Castro awarded Chávez Cuba’s highest honor, the Order of José Martí, named after a 19th-century poet—a leader in Cuba’s movement for independence from Spain.
—Vivian Salama, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2026
Bareilles was joined by AWFC co-president Allyson Newman for a wide-ranging conversation about Bareilles’ involvement in IndieWire Honoree Ryan White’s Apple documentary about the late poet and activist Andrea Gibson and Bareilles’ approach to her entire artistic career.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 11 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poet
Noun
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Louis Weslyn and Charles Albert wrote a horrifically racist blackface minstrel song called The Witch Behind the Moon that included lyrics about a Black witch who lived behind the moon and could fly down on her broomstick to snatch up children.—
Time,
Time,
21 Nov. 2025
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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
Noun
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That’s the side Charli says makes Consani a muse.—
Derek C. Blasberg,
Vanity Fair,
19 Jan. 2026
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The man who was in love with beauty, his family, his muses, his friends.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
19 Jan. 2026
Noun
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One diehard fan in attendance that afternoon: John Mellencamp, bard of Indiana, who's been going to Hoosier games ever since his father took him as a kid.—
Jon Wertheim,
CBS News,
15 Dec. 2025
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But there’s nothing slack, or lazy, or subjective, or self-indulgent, about the elaborate verse-craft of those bards.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Dec. 2025
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“Poet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poet. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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