poet
Example Sentences
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I realized, “Oh, the character is a poet. I’m going to step aside and let you, a poet, inhabit the character.”
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2023
“Culture isn’t dead. We have a governor who’s a poet. How great is that?” said Bushell, who has since published “Balancing Act 2: An Anthology of Poems by Fifty Maine Women.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023
“You can’t teach or learn cinema, you have to make it. Like a poet, you can study literature and read, but the poet is born a poet. I was born with this,” he asserts.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2020
"I write like a black poet. I frequently write from a black perspective."
From BBC • Oct. 27, 2016
“She was a writer and a poet. She wrote a poem that is engraved on the Statue of Liberty that says, ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’”
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Middle School
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Reading: Literature - Middle School
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