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a person who writes poetry
I may not be a great poet, but I'm as good as those versifiers hired by the greeting card companies
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poets
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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
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“Versifiers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/versifiers. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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