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Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2024
John Sinclair — the celebrated counterculture icon, poet, and political activist who advocated for cannabis and rock & roll and managed the MC5 — died on Tuesday at the age of 82.
—Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2024
In the fourth century B.C., the poet Eubulus wrote a humorous verse about drinking parties that often descended from refined to rowdy, quoted in The Deipnosophists.
—Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
This bio-pic (the first of Dumont’s two films about the doomed and sainted warrior) externalizes the wild subjectivity of her religious devotion in the form of a rock opera, based on plays by the Christian mystic poet Charles Péguy (1871–1914).
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
In fact, the home was inhabited quite differently by the physician and poet who commissioned it and for whom it is named: Dr. Edith Farnsworth—a lover of music and travel—enlivened her weekend house with eclectic furnishings and mementos that, in sum, were anything but minimal.
—Lauren Gallow, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2024
By 1846, the two poets had exchanged 573 letters in much the same vein.
—Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2024
Notable honors will be presented to Usher, who’s been named the recipient of the 2024 President’s Award, poet Amanda Gorman, who will receive the Chairman’s Award, and stylist June Ambrose who will be given the Vanguard Award.
—Brande Victorian, Essence, 16 Mar. 2024
The poet, a courtier named Yukihira, was a provincial governor who, by some accounts, was exiled to Suma Bay, a famous stretch of coastline in western Japan.
—Paul S. Atkins, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Middle English, from Anglo-French poete, from Latin poeta, from Greek poiētēs maker, poet, from poiein to make; akin to Sanskrit cinoti he gathers, heaps up
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Poet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poet. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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