as in minstrel
a person who writes poetry
Emily Dickinson is famous as the poet who rarely left the house but often journeyed to the depths of the human heart
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Good, a mother of three and a poet, was killed in front of her partner while inside her car on Wednesday.
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Rebecca Schneid, Time, 11 Jan. 2026
Head to Taormina Long before Netflix showcased its good looks to the world in The White Lotus, Taormina was a magnet for poets, film stars, and the aristocracy (a key Grand Tour destination).
—Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2026
Lynette Reini-Grandell, an English professor and poet, was walking along Portland Avenue at the time, like others, recording video of the situation playing out in broad daylight.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 10 Jan. 2026
She was known as a wife, award-winning poet and mother of three who lived in Kansas City for some time before moving to Minnesota.
—Kendrick Calfee
january 10, Kansas City Star, 10 Jan. 2026
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Louis Weslyn and Charles Albert wrote a horrifically racist blackface minstrel song called The Witch Behind the Moon that included lyrics about a Black witch who lived behind the moon and could fly down on her broomstick to snatch up children.—
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Like many such venues across America, the Kempner also hosted lectures, minstrel shows, musicals, operas, plays and vaudeville acts, along with community events such as school graduations.—
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The then-22-year-old actress played Cora, a beautiful Queenslander and muse of Australian painter Bradley Morahan (James Mason).—
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As the most discerning, up-to-the-minute voice in all things travel, Condé Nast Traveler is the global citizen’s bible and muse, offering both inspiration and vital intel.—
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One diehard fan in attendance that afternoon: John Mellencamp, bard of Indiana, who's been going to Hoosier games ever since his father took him as a kid.—
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But there’s nothing slack, or lazy, or subjective, or self-indulgent, about the elaborate verse-craft of those bards.—
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“Poet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poet. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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