as in minstrel
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 poet
He was born in Isfahan in 1937, the city of poets and blue tiles.
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Mike Aghili, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2025
Mary Shelley traveled to Switzerland, from her home in England, in the summer of 1816 with the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron; her stepsister, Claire Clairmont; and Byron’s doctor, John Polidori.
—Thomas Page McBee, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
And while the result was not the poet’s cut, there is a sense of poetry to it.
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Finzi, co-director of Doc Society, asked Falley to offer a recommendation of one of Gibson’s books for those interested in exploring the late poet’s works.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2025
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Mike Aghili, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2025
Mary Shelley traveled to Switzerland, from her home in England, in the summer of 1816 with the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron; her stepsister, Claire Clairmont; and Byron’s doctor, John Polidori.
—Thomas Page McBee, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
And while the result was not the poet’s cut, there is a sense of poetry to it.
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Finzi, co-director of Doc Society, asked Falley to offer a recommendation of one of Gibson’s books for those interested in exploring the late poet’s works.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poet
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Like many such venues across America, the Kempner also hosted lectures, minstrel shows, musicals, operas, plays and vaudeville acts, along with community events such as school graduations.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Aug. 2025
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His grandfather Daniel was a miner who would perish in an underground accident, and his great uncle George owned a minstrel show that toured Western mining camps.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
31 July 2025
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The muse, known as Lucybelle II, was a rare privateer entry that demonstrated the determination of non-factory teams.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
18 Sep. 2025
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Melrose sees Bernvill and Manai-Platt muse on the legacy of Austrian American modernist Rudolph Schindler and the conceptual approach of Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto.—
Thomas Waller,
Footwear News,
18 Sep. 2025
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Lockwood, who’s been erroneously pegged as an internet bard while managing to craft a literary project that is much bigger than anything Zuckerberg hath wrought, has a new gift for us.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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But Frost, who attended Harvard, lived for a time in England and taught for many years at Amherst College, was hardly an unpolished rustic bard.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Poet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poet. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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