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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 Upon arrival, the girls find a community of ravers and psychedelic rockers, romantics and orgiastics, shamans who serve as doctors, and poets who believe themselves to be prophets. — Robert Rubsam, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026 April may be the cruelest month for poets, but September is crueler for stock traders. — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026 Fiction writers and poets, from Henry James to Walt Whitman, have revised and reissued early works. — ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026 But the group had learned of the Phantom Orchestra, a group in Tbilisi, the capital of what is now Georgia, composed of musicians, poets and activists who had been barred from leaving the Soviet Union. — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026 Before scientists formulated their research, poets and naturalists had fathomed features of this intelligence. — Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2026 In 2000, the crew put on The Word Music, a four-day festival that gathered experimental poets, musicians, and more. — Erika Owen, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Aug. 2026 Painters, filmmakers, poets, and novelists all have drawn inspiration from him, including Marcel Proust and Gerhard Richter. — Air Mail, 15 Aug. 2026 Ancient Greek poets Homer and Hesiod helped cement the mountain's mythological importance through their writings, and stories about Olympus eventually spread throughout the Greek and Roman worlds. — Brittany Anas, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 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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Her mother, Linda Gaboriau, is an accomplished literary translator who had sometimes served as a photographers’ muse, and as an art student, Auf der Maur had been struck by her own resemblance to the muses of Botticelli and Gustav Klimt.

— Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026
Where the writers show up to work every day even when the mysterious muses and the magic don’t.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Aug. 2026