poet laureate

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as in poet

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Recent Examples of poet laureate In this new collection, Georgia poet laureate Chelsea Rathburn explores a hardscrabble childhood in Florida and her family of colorful characters including a sometimes-homeless bag lady and a notorious bank robber. — Suzanne Van Atten, AJC.com, 21 June 2026 The next poet laureate will receive a stipend of $6,000 per year. — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 14 June 2026 Mary Swander, a 75-year-old theater director and former state poet laureate, fondly remembers learning to canoe and swim outdoors while growing up near the water. — ABC News, 4 June 2026 Eventually, Reed suggested Vlautin take a night class from poet Gailmarie Pahmeier, the first poet laureate of Nevada. — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 19 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for poet laureate
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  1. poet
  2. poetaster
  3. bard
  4. muse
  5. rhymester
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  • Three Georgia poets have new poetry collections out this fall.
    — Suzanne Van Atten, AJC.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Accomplished poet and nonfiction writer Brandon Shimoda brings his love of lyricism to this memoir, a portrait of his grandfather that excavates a century of xenophobia and silence in America.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of poet
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of poetaster
Noun
  • This is a classic stair-step uptrend, the kind the poets of Ancient Greece composed odes to and bards of the north told tales about around the fire in days of old.
    — Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The bard of Idaho, where he was raised but no longer lives, Hunter is keenly aware that no one exists in a psychological vacuum.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of bard
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  • Against the stunning landscapes of wild, remote Turkey, captured in glorious detail by cinematographer Kiril Prodanov, Elif finds her muse again.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
  • As with many things at Thom Browne, a gray suit inspired the design for this collab, with its clean lines and form acting as the muse for this pair of ‘phones.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of muse
Noun
  • 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
Definition of rhymester

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