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poet laureate

NOUN
honored poet
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But he articulated things that hadn’t been part of the American grain, becoming his country’s poet laureate of nature and ethics and its hippie Founding Father.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 26, 2026

Tennyson became the only poet laureate to be elevated to the House of Lords.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

Glasgow's poet laureate Jim Carruth says the closure has also hit writers.

From BBC Feb. 9, 2026

The intimate portrait of Colorado poet laureate Andrea Gibson, who faces a terminal diagnosis with a spirit of resilience, needed the boost.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 29, 2026

We named our new daughter Zindziswa, after the daughter of the poet laureate of the Xhosa people, Samuel Mqhayi, who had inspired me so many years before at Healdtown.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela



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