poetaster

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Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2022

Louis Untermeyer, 62, perennial poetaster and anthologist, now editorial consultant for Decca Records; and Bryna Ivens, 39, fiction editor of Seventeen magazine; he for the fourth time, she for the second; near Cuernavaca, Mexico.

From Time Magazine Archive

A calculated affront to poetry which causes the teeth of serious poets to gnash is a recent volume of doggerel, Family Reunion, by that whimsical poetaster: 1.

From Time Magazine Archive

He remained a hip poetaster, a psychedelic pushcart salesman hawking Oedipal nightmares like Good Humors.

From Time Magazine Archive

And now we shall lay down our pen, and bid farewell for a season both to poet and to poetaster.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various