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poets

noun

plural of poet

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 Alex’s friends were poets—Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, and the poet-dance critic Edwin Denby, who introduced Alex to choreographer Paul Taylor. — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026 The poets don’t need the movies as much as the movies need characters who still have something unruly to lay on the line. — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026 Advertisement Maybe that sounds like a minor thing, having enough dishes to entertain your friend group of poets and writers. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 16 Oct. 2026 Countless poets have wrestled with this question, either writing about dreams directly or invoking them through the dreamlike manipulation of words and ideas. — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 15 Oct. 2026 Variations in form and narrative However, many poets, bards, and troubadours experimented with form to create ballads featuring more than four lines in a stanza and different rhyme schemes or meters. — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Oct. 2026 Three Georgia poets have new poetry collections out this fall. — Suzanne Van Atten, AJC.com, 2 Oct. 2026 Owners Hannah and Brandan Griffin are poets who are passionate about books and the Kansas City artistic community, according to the store’s website. — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026 Under the Soviet Union, dissident artists, poets and creators distributed their work within small, private networks, according to Ingold. — Miranda Huang, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 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

Definition of minstrels

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And Crow—who proudly posted a video last year of her Tesla taken away on a flatbed after selling it to protest Elon Musk and DOGE—has added to her songwriting muses as time goes on.

— Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 9 Oct. 2026
But Tip Toe is a drama for an age in which Leo at one point muses that queerphobia can no longer be chalked up to a lack of visibility.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of muses

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This is a classic stair-step uptrend, the kind the poets of Ancient Greece composed odes to and bards of the north told tales about around the fire in days of old.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026
Before it was written down, bards recited the adventures of Odysseus and the Greeks orally.

— Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 19 Aug. 2026