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bards

noun

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plural of bard

as in poets

a person who writes poetry a bard best known for a series of love poems to his raven-haired beloved

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Recent Examples of bards But this award, which was inaugurated in 2023 with a Jesso win, circles the same handful of writers, and country scribes like Jessie Jo Dillon, pop bards like Amy Allen, and reggaeton men-at-arms like Edgar Barrera are just as up next. —

Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026 But there’s nothing slack, or lazy, or subjective, or self-indulgent, about the elaborate verse-craft of those bards. —

Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025 Yet Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, among others, insisted that Brown, whose archaic-modern style telescopes entire epochs into a few flinty lines, belongs among the major twentieth-century bards. —

Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025

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The neighborhood, called Jabal al-Joufeh, was historically home to merchants, politicians, and poets.

— Annie Hylton, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
Focusing on Vahdat’s repertoire of classical settings for verse by great Persian poets both ancient (Hafez, Rumi) and contemporary (Forough Farrokhzad), as well as songs she’s gathered from Iran’s various ethnic groups, the project includes percussionist Nariman Assadi on tombak and daf.

— Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 13 May 2026