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A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or written ), or they may also perform their art to an audience .
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Poetry. Poetry (a term derived from the Greek word poiesis, "making"), also called verse, [note 1] is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1] [2] [3] qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning.
Joseph Auslander (1897–1965), US poet, anthologist and novelist; US Poet Laureate, 1937–1941; Ausonius (c. 310–395), Latin poet and rhetorician at Burdigala ; Paul Auster (born 1947), US poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, and translator; James Avery (1948–2013), US actor, poet and screenwriter; Margaret Avison (1918–2007), Canadian ...
The Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry, Ford Madox Brown. This article focuses on poetry from the United Kingdom written in the English language. The article does not cover poetry from other countries where the English language is spoken, including Republican Ireland after December 1922.
The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. A. Henry Abbey ( 1842 – 1911) Arthur Talmage Abernethy (1872–1956) Sam Abrams (born 1935) Seth Abramson (born 1976) Diane Ackerman (born 1948) Duane Ackerson (1942–2020) Mercedes de Acosta ( 1893 – 1968)
American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry already existed among Native American societies).