poetess

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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

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

Her great-grandmother, a Vassar-educated Italian poetess named Concetta Reynolds, is mentioned in passing in the film, whereas in the book she is a crucial part of Dan Torrance’s plan to defeat the True Knot.

From Slate • Nov. 11, 2019

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

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

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