poet
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Over there, film critic Pauline Kael; and there, poet and sitcom star Suzanne Somers; and look, there’s bar-band singer Hugh Cregg, who’ll eventually use the stage name Huey Lewis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
That triple-decker analogy comes from a scholar whose love for poetry runs deep, and who seems part poet himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
In the ancient world, plagiarism was viewed quite negatively: The word “plagiarism” actually means “kidnapper” in Latin, and the Roman poet Horace described literary theft like a crow making itself beautiful with stolen feathers.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
The poet has for a very long time been associated with the Izmir region of Turkey's Aegean coast, which for most of its history was known as ancient Smyrna.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
When we’re ready to rest, we have tapas at one of the cafés on the Plaza de Santa Ana, next to a statue of the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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Gerd believes it's important to look both to the future and to a history before the Nazi era, when German-speaking lands were known as a place of "poets and thinkers."
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Ashbery was always cast as a member of the “New York School” of poets, a category whose very definition and constituents have long been debated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
“I’m very grateful to the litigious poets who forced us to change our name,” Heiser adds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Tapping Travis Scott to play the Bard singing the tales of Odysseus’ exploits, for example, doesn’t merely reframe the role of ancient storytellers and poets as that age’s rappers.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Why can’t poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Middle School
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Reading: Literature - Middle School
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