Thesaurus results for POETS

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 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 The masthead means to identify vanguard critics, poets, and authors for a lively new readership. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 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 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 Her mystical encounters with the divine through the natural world are reminiscent of poets like Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver. — Amy Cannon, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026 For more than 800 years, Dalhousie Castle near Edinburgh has welcomed royalty, poets, politicians and now, you. — Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 17 Sep. 2026 This week’s literary geography quiz is a tour of the cafes, clubs and other establishments around New York City that attracted poets and authors. — J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

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Noun

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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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
Many of Jumbo’s dancers write fiction and memoir, host literary salons across Los Angeles and find ways to tell their own stories rather than serve as muses.

— Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 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