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 But in discharging this function, poets are in danger of slighting another imperative, namely, to redress poetry as poetry, to set it up as its own category, an eminence established and a pressure exercised by distinctly linguistic means. —
Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026 For the film, Waters interviewed Stephen Colbert, director John Waters (no relation to Sasha Waters), and many poets who admire Oliver’s writing. —Matthew Carey, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2026 It was called the Artist’s Studio, and Beat poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Gregory Corso, and Frank O’Hara were regulars. —Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 23 Apr. 2026 These poets alone have given us more than enough upon which to sustain a civilization. —Melody Moezzi, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026 Back in the early years of Stagecoach, there was a tent with the same name that featured a lot of cowboy poets and bluegrass. —Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026 And which society is torturing the poets? —Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2026 In such company, Schomburg spent his life in pursuit of material to illuminate Black history and culture, from sixteenth-century geographies of Africa to the contemporary poets of the Harlem Renaissance. —Laura E. Helton, Literary Hub, 20 Apr. 2026 Nancy Cruz Orozco, Mexico Cecilia arrives in the city aspiring to be a writer and meets Nicolás and Aristeo, two young poets who claim to be the founders and sole members of an underground ultraist movement. —Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026 For the film, Waters interviewed Stephen Colbert, director John Waters (no relation to Sasha Waters), and many poets who admire Oliver’s writing. —Matthew Carey, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2026 It was called the Artist’s Studio, and Beat poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Gregory Corso, and Frank O’Hara were regulars. —Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 23 Apr. 2026 These poets alone have given us more than enough upon which to sustain a civilization. —Melody Moezzi, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026 Back in the early years of Stagecoach, there was a tent with the same name that featured a lot of cowboy poets and bluegrass. —Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026 And which society is torturing the poets? —Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2026 In such company, Schomburg spent his life in pursuit of material to illuminate Black history and culture, from sixteenth-century geographies of Africa to the contemporary poets of the Harlem Renaissance. —Laura E. Helton, Literary Hub, 20 Apr. 2026 Nancy Cruz Orozco, Mexico Cecilia arrives in the city aspiring to be a writer and meets Nicolás and Aristeo, two young poets who claim to be the founders and sole members of an underground ultraist movement. —Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
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The Black characters that appeared on-screen closely resembled the clownish stereotypes popularized by the minstrels.— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
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Sometimes the muses have more to offer than inspiration, however, as did the following nine women.— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
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Losing relationships did seem to deprive the band of its strongest muses.— David Glickman, Pitchfork, 27 Mar. 2026
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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
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But there’s nothing slack, or lazy, or subjective, or self-indulgent, about the elaborate verse-craft of those bards.— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
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