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Recent Examples of poetess
Billed as a break-dance, hip-hop supernatural fantasy, the movie stars Jeroboam Bozeman as DeRay, a legendary dancer who falls through the sky to land outside the door of Naima (Mecca Verdell), a slam poetess who is the love of his life.
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024
During Monday’s broadcast of TODAY, genealogy company Ancestry revealed that the Evermore singer is related to a major figure in American literature: Emily Dickinson, the prolific poetess who penned nearly 1800 poems in her time.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2024
Louvre Richelieu Wing Palette For the makeup palette, Lancôme celebrated the sculpture of Corine, Greek poetess of the 5th century BC presented in the Richelieu wing of the Louvre.
—India Espy-Jones, Essence, 25 Aug. 2023
Though Orton, in concert later this week at the Irish American Heritage Center, is rightly admired as a poetess of British folk-rock, her closest analog might be a poetess of Francophone cinema: Claire Denis.
—Matthew Richards, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
To those who know, Patti Smith, pioneering punk poetess and rock star without peer or precedent, requires no introduction.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 June 2022
Reimagined as a flowing gown, the look has a new verve, one that speaks to Kente’s timelessness and the youthful exuberance of 23-year-old poetess.
—Vogue, 7 Apr. 2021
Sarojini Naidu, poetess, and Madeline Slade, the British admiral's daughter who has been Gandhi's devoted follower for 17 years. Mme.
—Lily Rothman, Time, 9 Aug. 2017
Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024
During Monday’s broadcast of TODAY, genealogy company Ancestry revealed that the Evermore singer is related to a major figure in American literature: Emily Dickinson, the prolific poetess who penned nearly 1800 poems in her time.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2024
Louvre Richelieu Wing Palette For the makeup palette, Lancôme celebrated the sculpture of Corine, Greek poetess of the 5th century BC presented in the Richelieu wing of the Louvre.
—India Espy-Jones, Essence, 25 Aug. 2023
Though Orton, in concert later this week at the Irish American Heritage Center, is rightly admired as a poetess of British folk-rock, her closest analog might be a poetess of Francophone cinema: Claire Denis.
—Matthew Richards, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
To those who know, Patti Smith, pioneering punk poetess and rock star without peer or precedent, requires no introduction.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 June 2022
Reimagined as a flowing gown, the look has a new verve, one that speaks to Kente’s timelessness and the youthful exuberance of 23-year-old poetess.
—Vogue, 7 Apr. 2021
Sarojini Naidu, poetess, and Madeline Slade, the British admiral's daughter who has been Gandhi's devoted follower for 17 years. Mme.
—Lily Rothman, Time, 9 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poetess
Noun
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Roundup Ten Poems by Audre Lorde The esteemed poet is author of Sister Outsider, one title on the Schomburg Black Liberation Reading List.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Oct. 2025
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Zweig is a filmmaker, journalist, and poet based in Mexico City.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
3 Oct. 2025
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Many surrealist artists cast women as muses or dream figures conjured for the male gaze.—
Sally Jane Brown,
The Conversation,
29 Sep. 2025
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In both cases, their cultish devotion to a spouse has generated enduring curiosity, part of which may be envy, since many women have aspired to serve as a muse to genius.—
Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 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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“Poetess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poetess. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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