poet

Example Sentences

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The story of the first Carthaginian queen, Dido, was co-opted by the Roman poet Virgil, whose hero, Aeneas, spurns her.

From The Wall Street Journal

Decades after her elementary school field trips, as a newly appointed poet laureate for West Hollywood, she envisioned a way to mirror this childhood experience.

From Los Angeles Times

"We receive no public money, so the free room they provide for seven events a year is vital to showcase the best UK poets alongside local ones."

From BBC

Mr. Polito thereby gives us a poet who isn’t “just a blazing, mercurial, ingenious reviser of his own words and melodies but also a conscious, sly, artist.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Others, knowing Good had been a poet, wrote poems of their own:

From Los Angeles Times