Poetess

His poetess is inspired by the Polish Roma poetess Papusza; 1910-1987. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I know that you have no desire to celebrate war on the face of it, like Owen's "poetess" - nor do I begin to presume to know the challenges or "virtus" of military life and warfare. ❋ Unknown (2010)

_carmen triumphale_ of the poetess is a worthy accompaniment. ❋ Various (N/A)

always gives away a woman writer, also known as poetess. ❋ Beate Sigriddaughter (2011)

Poet Mary O'Donnell, for example, has suggested "poetess", "authoress", "hysterical" and "as a mother"; but to me, these are bugbear words and phrases rather than tripping-up ones – she's disturbed by the way they're used rather than confused by the act of reading them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There is a "poetess" in the wilds of nineteenth-century frontier Canada ( "Meneseteung"), a violinist in the 1940s who dreams of leaving her baby outside to die ( "My Mother's Dream"), and an aging piano teacher, Miss Marsalles, whose popularity is waning ( "Dance of the Happy Shades"): ❋ Unknown (2001)

There was a "poetess" named Jessie Pope who was, apparently, a kind of one woman recruiting force - she wrote verse singing the praises of war and urging young men to enlist. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I loved that anthology, and, although an 11-year-old aspiring "poetess", I wasn't alarmed that women were more often the subjects than the authors (what's so bad about being a rarity?) but, yes, it was refreshing suddenly to be presented with this notion that the poet's desired woman might not exist at all; that she might be a figment of his imagination. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Often Munro is historical and modern simultaneously, as in her depiction of the doctor who treats the nineteenth-century frontier "poetess": "He believes that her troubles would clear up if she got married. ❋ Unknown (2001)

You talk as if I was a kind of poetess sort of person. " ❋ Unknown (1924)

Etaoin Shrdlu, a Professor at the University of Missouri-Chillicothe, is not much of a woodsman, but he's carrying a heavy load of chiggers and cockleburrs today as he hacks his way through the underbrush here in search of an elusive quarry; poetess Sara Thaler, a misanthropic versifier who attracts men by repelling them. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

Now, this fierce poetess has teamed up with producer/artist Marco Valentin form Black Eskimo. ❋ John Gascot (2011)

I have been tempted by a certain lovely mermaid-haired poetess. ❋ S00j (2009)

I would rather be a goddess than a god, and so I must conclude that I would rather be a poetess than ever again a poet, straining hard against my being, merely to avoid such words as “so” and “and” and “such.” ❋ Beate Sigriddaughter (2011)

She is grateful that "Mrs. Krikorian," the school teacher in Blood, Tin, Straw 1999, escaped the Armenian genocide so she could "save" our budding poetess. ❋ Anis Shivani (2011)

As so often happens when there's a falling out between a poetess and a jilted liberal arts college, New Hampshire College sued the blue stockings off of Anne Marie Macari, who left for the pastures of New Jersey, which are definitelynotgreener than New Hampshire's. ❋ Con Chapman (2010)