poetess

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Recent Examples of poetess Billed as a break-dance, hip-hop supernatural fantasy, the movie stars Jeroboam Bozeman as DeRay, a legendary dancer who falls through the sky to land outside the door of Naima (Mecca Verdell), a slam poetess who is the love of his life. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024 During Monday’s broadcast of TODAY, genealogy company Ancestry revealed that the Evermore singer is related to a major figure in American literature: Emily Dickinson, the prolific poetess who penned nearly 1800 poems in her time. Shania Russell, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2024 Louvre Richelieu Wing Palette For the makeup palette, Lancôme celebrated the sculpture of Corine, Greek poetess of the 5th century BC presented in the Richelieu wing of the Louvre. India Espy-Jones, Essence, 25 Aug. 2023 Though Orton, in concert later this week at the Irish American Heritage Center, is rightly admired as a poetess of British folk-rock, her closest analog might be a poetess of Francophone cinema: Claire Denis. Matthew Richards, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022 To those who know, Patti Smith, pioneering punk poetess and rock star without peer or precedent, requires no introduction. Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 June 2022 Reimagined as a flowing gown, the look has a new verve, one that speaks to Kente’s timelessness and the youthful exuberance of 23-year-old poetess. Vogue, 7 Apr. 2021 Sarojini Naidu, poetess, and Madeline Slade, the British admiral's daughter who has been Gandhi's devoted follower for 17 years. Mme. Lily Rothman, Time, 9 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poetess
Noun
  • The poet, too, filled his darkness with a divine stream of words, and through these words a whole cosmos spun into view.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The exhibition’s title Sailing to Byzantium comes from a 1927 poem by William Butler Yeats, where the poet uses a sea voyage to Byzantium as a metaphor for a spiritual journey.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.
    New York Times, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
  • But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.
    Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018

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