Thesaurus results for POETS

poets

noun

plural of poet

as in minstrels

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 poets Mulzet, the translator of most of the Nobel Prize winner László Krasznahorkai’s novels (notably inclined to apocalypticism), has now collected these ten poets, working with six other translators, partly to correct the impression that the country’s female poets are few and far between. —

Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026 But as Ticktin’s verse reminded me, bad poets gotta poet. —

Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2026 The weekend festival will feature esteemed authors and cultural luminaries, spanning literary heavyweights, performers, celebrity authors, poets, politicians and journalists. —

Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026 All poets and aspiring poets are welcome. —

Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026 Featuring poets, comedians, authors, dramatists, chefs, and composers, the festival has drawn hundreds of publishers and thousands of writers to the Grand Palais over the past 30 years. —

Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026 Persian poets wrote about wine as a symbol of joy, reflection and even spiritual connection, Momtazi said. —

Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 8 Mar. 2026 The show will feature the work of more than fifty musicians, poets, and philosophers from Russia and elsewhere. —

News Desk, Artforum, 6 Mar. 2026 Hell’s greatest feat, however, is a studied transposition of the infamous affair between the nineteenth-century French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud onto the lives of Vaughn and Wode. —

Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026

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The muses of these two shows felt titillatingly out of reach, an arch if mischievous contrast to the many designers droning backstage about wanting to dress real women (and then giving them completely boring clothes).

— Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026
While the late Karl Lagerfield had a selection of male muses (Brad Kroenig and Baptiste Giabiconi walked his runways), an official foray into the menswear space never came to fruition.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2026