poetess

Example Sentences

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To paraphrase the late, venerable American poetess, Maya Angelou: our nation is a multi-colored ocean, leaping and wide, welling and swelling, we bear the tide.

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2023

Tova, a simple name, a popular name, not quite suited to a young poetess.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

The protest came from a group of angry ladies led by Robin Morgan, 27, poetess and housewife.

From Time • Sep. 12, 2016

It is Plath’s ability to express these divisions—the good American girl and the unhinged poetess, the wife and mother and the mentally ill cynic—that has made her an object of fascination for the past half-century.

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2013

Remembering, her old customers picture her as philanthropist, medical authority, bouncer, and poetess of the bodily emotions without being involved with them.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck