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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Nikki Giovanni —the bold, beloved, indelible poet, activist, author, and professor— died at age 81 on Monday (Dec. 9) in a Virginia hospital due to complications caused by lung cancer, according to her wife, Virginia C. Fowler.
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Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 10 Dec. 2024
The Lady Blunt Stradivarius, formerly owned by the granddaughter of British Romantic poet Lord Byron, had previously set the record for the highest price paid for a musical keepsake, fetching $15.9 million in 2011.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2024
That’s the secret poets know, and so does Madison Avenue.
—Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
As for what's next, Morley-Chisholm and the rest of her team have gotten a lot of requests for more voices, from Mary, Queen of Scots, to the poet John Keats and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
—Patrick Wood, NPR, 29 Nov. 2024
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Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 10 Dec. 2024
The Lady Blunt Stradivarius, formerly owned by the granddaughter of British Romantic poet Lord Byron, had previously set the record for the highest price paid for a musical keepsake, fetching $15.9 million in 2011.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2024
That’s the secret poets know, and so does Madison Avenue.
—Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
As for what's next, Morley-Chisholm and the rest of her team have gotten a lot of requests for more voices, from Mary, Queen of Scots, to the poet John Keats and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
—Patrick Wood, NPR, 29 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poet
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One in which a racially stereotypical minstrel image seemed to be depicted in their latest U.S. campaign.Doug Melville, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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His father, who died when Marshall was 10, occasionally sang in a minstrel act and Marshall’s sister, actor Joanne Dru, worked as a showgirl at the Copa Club.Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
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Fortuna, the goddess of fortune and luck, serves as the muse for this exquisite piece, seamlessly blending elegance with the whims of fate.Catherine Santino, People.com, 5 Dec. 2024
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By his final run for the project, in October, the all-too-familiar streets of his neighborhood had become a prison of his own creation, the stickman equal parts muse and tyrant.Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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The endearing homecoming introduces new characters including Moni (Hualalai Chung), a passionate island bard; Loto (Rose Matafeo), a quirky shipwright; Kele (David Fane), a cantankerous farmer; and Simea (Khaleesi Lambert-Tsuda), Moana’s tenacious younger sister.Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Nov. 2024
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According to Open Source Shakespeare, a web page containing all of the bard’s plays, poems and sonnets, there are 884,421 words in the entire works of Shakespeare.David Hodari, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Poet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poet. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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