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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 Ancient Greek poets Homer and Hesiod helped cement the mountain's mythological importance through their writings, and stories about Olympus eventually spread throughout the Greek and Roman worlds. — Brittany Anas, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026 Franklin Park is mostly fiction; Crown Inn is mostly emerging writers and poets. — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2026 With apologies to Shelley, maybe designers are the unacknowledged poets of the world. — Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2026 Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1890’s novella, Burch has modernized it and changed the Vienna setting to New York City’s Soho district, a once-bustling enclave for artists and poets and now something quite different. — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2026 The Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra returns for its second year in a row Saturday night for a mix of symphonic music alongside Grammy Award-winning artists and poets. — Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026 Verses of the Urdu poets Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Habib Jalib – long associated with protest movements across South Asia – play from a speaker nearby. — Aakash Hassan, Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2026 This influence can be found in the works of contemporary Kashmiri poets and writers who continue to draw on Lal Ded, Nund Rishi and other Rishi Sufi poets and saints. — Peter Dziedzic, The Conversation, 30 July 2026 Here are a few favorites, a mix of New York School founders and contemporary poets who are New York School–inflected. — Joe Dunthorne, The New York Review of Books, 25 July 2026

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The Black characters that appeared on-screen closely resembled the clownish stereotypes popularized by the minstrels.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026

Definition of minstrels

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Tales from the Trojan War were passed down orally by bards for centuries until someone put pen to paper.

— Eliana Dockterman, Time, 17 July 2026
The admiral's swagger, battlefield bravado and desire for revenge will be sung by the bards of Westeros, and serve as a breakthrough showcase for Thorn, a playwright and YouTuber, who came out as a transgender woman in a January 2021 video on her Philosophy Tube channel.

— Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 21 June 2026