poet

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Tzruya “Suki” Lahav, a violinist and poet who played with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in the mid 1970’s on some of the band’s most beloved LPs, has died.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

She is a poet, musician, activist, sound designer, organizer, curator, visual artist and Afrofuturist visionary.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

It may be a novel, but Mr. Lerner, after all, is a poet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

The subterranean passage was part of Horsley Towers in Leatherhead, a grand mansion once lived in by Lovelace, also the only legitimate child of scandalous 19th Century poet Lord Byron.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

The city was, in the words of famed poet Carl Sandburg, “fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action.”

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler