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Pulitzer Prize finalist and translator Arthur Sze, 74, is the nation’s newest poet laureate, the Library of Congress announced Monday.
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Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 15 Sep. 2025
Capó-Garcia, the current poet laureate of San Diego, and McFadden, Ventura County poet laureate, will share and reflect on their work over the years.
—La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
Like so many others in the city, Christensen, the city’s poet laureate emerita and founding member of Fox Valley Music Foundation.
—Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
And, with The Lowdown, Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harjo is staking a claim as the state’s TV laureate (to differentiate him from Joy Harjo, no relation and our former national poet laureate).
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 15 Sep. 2025
Capó-Garcia, the current poet laureate of San Diego, and McFadden, Ventura County poet laureate, will share and reflect on their work over the years.
—La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
Like so many others in the city, Christensen, the city’s poet laureate emerita and founding member of Fox Valley Music Foundation.
—Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
And, with The Lowdown, Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harjo is staking a claim as the state’s TV laureate (to differentiate him from Joy Harjo, no relation and our former national poet laureate).
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poet laureate
Noun
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His father, an Iranian-American poet and English professor at Queens College in New York City, has not responded to requests for comment.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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There are love letters to the dead in Lasky’s life interwoven into these essays, including to her father (a judge who died, slowly, from Alzheimer’s), her artist mother, her dog Lucy, beloved poet friends, Mayer herself.—
Diana Arterian,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
7 Feb. 2022
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But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.—
Melissa Mohr,
The Christian Science Monitor,
28 June 2018
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Robinson’s closest peer at the network is Nathan Fielder, a fellow bard of anxiety who deploys cringe with a masterful and unsparing hand.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025
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With Shakespeare in Love, Hamlet and now a Shakespeare-adjacent season of The Night Manager ahead, Petrie can’t help but think about the bard’s artistic impact on his career so far.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Oct. 2025
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The muse for this record was the sound of it.—
Daniela Avila,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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Nearby, Kristen Stewart — who later delivered a keynote speech — paused for the cameras in head-to-toe Chanel, ever the house’s muse.—
Ryma Chikhoune,
Footwear News,
5 Nov. 2025
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By contrast, the French word for scarcity, rareté, has so many acoustic kin that an English rhymester could weep, with engagé, écarté, and retardé leading the pack.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
23 May 2022
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“Poet laureate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poet%20laureate. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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