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lyrist

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as in poet

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Biermann, the new documentary film from Jens Meurer (An Impossible Project, Public Enemy, Seaside Special), is a portrait of the outspoken political singer-songwriter and poet Wolf Biermann.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
Aside from his work on screen, the Londoner is an accomplished poet whose work explores themes of masculinity, love, grief and connection.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of poet

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The album largely drew inspiration from a car accident that left a 16-year-old Hersh, the band’s primary lyricist, with a rod in her skull.

— Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
Mazzoli, who fronts an electro-acoustic band in addition to her operatic career, selected the Saunders novel, turning the book into a close to three hour opera, with her longtime lyricist Royce Vavrek.

— Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of lyricist

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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.

— New York Times, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.

— Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018

Definition of poetaster

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Variations in form and narrative However, many poets, bards, and troubadours experimented with form to create ballads featuring more than four lines in a stanza and different rhyme schemes or meters.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Oct. 2026
In that sense, Deutsch, 51, wants to be the bard of Chicago, in part by leading by example.

— Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of bard

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Rent played its first preview off-Broadway, at the New York Theatre Workshop, on January 25, 1996—the same day that Jonathan Larson, its 35-year-old composer and librettist, died suddenly at his home in Manhattan.

— Vogue, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2026
Blues and ragtime supplied a largely Black musical language that helped American composers break free of European operetta, even as jazz performers then gave them a life beyond the theatre.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

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Rent played its first preview off-Broadway, at the New York Theatre Workshop, on January 25, 1996—the same day that Jonathan Larson, its 35-year-old composer and librettist, died suddenly at his home in Manhattan.

— Vogue, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2026
Tom Jones, lyricist-librettist of the original, worked on this version before his death in 2023.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026

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