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 All that ended after the Second World War when New York became a capital not just for painters and sculptors but poets, novelists and composers. — Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026 Speaking from beyond the grave, Andy Warhol talks with Jasper Dean about the latter’s love for Beat poets and Cameron Winter. — Cassidy Sollazzo, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026 Guest & host… The language of these kinds of poets, who engage in the exchange between guest & ghost, between revenge & grief, are tremulous inhabitations of the yodel. — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026 Many American poets have written hymns and howls, declarations and outcries for this country that brims with so many people, and so many hopes, from all over the world. — Scott Simon, NPR, 4 July 2026 Mark Ford Rosemary Tonks emulated French Symbolist poets before converting to Christianity and renouncing all her own works. — The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026 Who are a couple of your favorite poets who have inspired you? — Will Oremus, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026 Yet the wilderness is just plain green, a meeting spot for people of all backgrounds and political views, from deer hunters to biologists, bass fishermen to poets. — Nicholas D. Kristof, Mercury News, 3 July 2026 Neruda, also a diplomat and politician, is considered one of the most important Latin American poets of the 20th century, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971. — USA Today, 29 June 2026

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Noun

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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For Lestat, embracing the loneliness has an immediate reaction on the muses lurking in the crowds at his show.

— Hunter Ingram, Variety, 22 June 2026
After Daft Punk’s rise from underground dance music heroes to chart-topping pop insurgents, Bangalter followed different muses in different directions.

— Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026

Definition of muses

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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
The bards were the first adapters.

— David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026