poetess

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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

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

The poetess lived alone and shaped her time and activities carefully in order to meet the heavy demands of artistic responsibility.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison