as in poet
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On April 23, 1616, English poet and playwright William Shakespeare died in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon at the age of fifty-two.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026 -
Now, the 49-year-old is moving into a more prominent role as the county’s official poet — a position Levine Cava created during her first term as mayor.—
Douglas Hanks
April 1,
Miami Herald,
1 Apr. 2026
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This new musical by playwright/lyricist Ali Viterbi and composer/lyricist Toby Singer tells the true stories of two Hungarian Jews in Budapest during World War II.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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Hawke started as a lyricist and was initially afraid to get into the music side of songwriting, in part because she was intimidated by the extraordinary musicians around her.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
19 Mar. 2026
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By contrast, the French word for scarcity, rareté, has so many acoustic kin that an English rhymester could weep, with engagé, écarté, and retardé leading the pack.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
23 May 2022
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Her language thus had its necessary counterpoint: the Bronx’s fullness against her poetry’s economy; the streetcorner’s pizzicato against her versifier’s swing.—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2022
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Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier, did not leave his mark on the world of art.—
Sarah Vitali,
Harper's magazine,
10 May 2019
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Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
7 Feb. 2022
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But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.—
Melissa Mohr,
The Christian Science Monitor,
28 June 2018
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With those words, Bruce Springsteen became the bard of Saturday's No Kings protest in Minneapolis.—
Diego Parrado,
Vanity Fair,
29 Mar. 2026
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As reigning bard of the sad girls, Eilish feels like an auspicious and thoroughly modern candidate for Esther.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
12 Mar. 2026
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Browne also collaborated for many years with the late Minnesota composer Stephen Paulus.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
31 Mar. 2026
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The Segerstrom Center for the Arts is celebrating its 40th anniversary by expanding its Hispanic and Latino arts and culture programming and naming Grammy Award-winning jazz composer and band leader Arturo O’Farrill as its first-ever artist in residence.—
Charlie Vargas,
Oc Register,
30 Mar. 2026
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The description by the composer (who is also his librettist) can hardly be bettered.—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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Snapshot is West Edge’s intensive, two-week development workshop in which composer-librettist pairs polish and stage scenes from their works in progress with a team of experienced advisers, a strong cast and musicians.—
Michael Zwiebach,
San Francisco Chronicle,
14 Mar. 2026
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