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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 The complete Poems of Seamus Heaney published late last year in the United States has been widely praised as a work of genius and has cemented Heaney’s status as one of the greatest poets of the last century. —

Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026 Diana Shi, co-recipient of two US National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowships, has collaborated since 2006 with George O’Connell in translating many prominent western and Chinese-speaking poets. —

Chen Yuhong, The Dial, 3 Feb. 2026 The regime would call our cultural traditions pagan, but Iranians still make pilgrimages to the shrines of our poets. —

Azar Nafisi, Time, 3 Feb. 2026 In the thirties, a cadre of Black artists, including the poets Langston Hughes and Claude McKay, had been welcomed by the Soviets. —

Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026 Writers, artists, performers, poets and librarians all gathered for an intellectual salon to discuss their work and the contributions of deceased contemporaries. —

Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 31 Jan. 2026 More than a pseudonym, these poets and writers had different backgrounds and influences. —

Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026 Since the dawn of time, the romance of railways has seduced poets, spellbound novelists, and dealt directors the perfect hand for capturing fleeting friendships, illicit affairs, and all manner of crimes and capers. —

Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2026 Swim through bioluminescent seas, sleep in deserts with poets, wake in rainforest dawns with conservationists, and travel north into polar silence. —

Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026

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Here, Strong runs through his memories of playing Lord Blackwood and muses about why Brits are so good at going bad.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2026
And no matter where anyone turned, everyone poked, prodded and dissected the sounds, lyrics and yes, muses – a prospect faced by no other artist in 2025.

— Denise Warner, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2026