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Recent Examples of poet laureate
Wilson was called the poet laureate of surf culture.
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Lee Cowan, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
Chronicling the Colorado poet laureate’s relationship, work and battle with cancer, Ryan White’s Sundance-premiering film is available to stream on Apple TV.
—Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 23 Dec. 2025
The nonprofit noted the poet laureate program was at risk.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 4 Dec. 2025
He was also appointed the first ever poet laureate of Miami-Dade County.
—Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 14 Nov. 2025
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Lee Cowan, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
Chronicling the Colorado poet laureate’s relationship, work and battle with cancer, Ryan White’s Sundance-premiering film is available to stream on Apple TV.
—Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 23 Dec. 2025
The nonprofit noted the poet laureate program was at risk.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 4 Dec. 2025
He was also appointed the first ever poet laureate of Miami-Dade County.
—Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 14 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poet laureate
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Dora Prieto is a Mexican-Canadian poet and translator based in the Bay Area as a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford.—
© Adri Montes,
Hazlitt,
11 Jan. 2026
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Paul Mescal, 29, stars as the popular playwright and poet.—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
PEOPLE,
11 Jan. 2026
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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
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
Noun
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The then-22-year-old actress played Cora, a beautiful Queenslander and muse of Australian painter Bradley Morahan (James Mason).—
Diane J. Cho,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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As the most discerning, up-to-the-minute voice in all things travel, Condé Nast Traveler is the global citizen’s bible and muse, offering both inspiration and vital intel.—
Meaghan Kenny,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 Jan. 2026
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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 Jan. 2026.
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