poetess

Example Sentences

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I’d absorbed the cultural cliche of the neurasthenic poetess in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Rudolf Besier’s Broadway hit that spawned three films and seven TV dramas.

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2021

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

I have met a first rate American poetess.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2014

I like to think that at some of those performances, they heard the songs of Ts’ai Yen, a poetess born in A.D.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston