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  • "The Bulgarian Poetess" is the first of the Henry Bech stories, but, although a perfectly good story, it probably doesn't really belong in this collection.

    Updike, John 2010

  • _Longinus_ has quoted another Ode of this great Poetess, which is likewise admirable in its Kind, and has been translated by the same Hand with the foregoing one.

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

  • Yet, there may have been a spark when Felicia "Poetess" Morris stated on the same show that Stern's sidekick, Robyn, did not call Stern out on some of the racist comments he made.

    Queer Sighted Dave White 2010

  • "'Poetess' is a silly and condescending term and I expect more from the Times."

    NYT > Opinion 2009

  •   What elena didn't realize — because she was so self-absorbed — is that all of her competitors had been cutting their own hair since they got their My Little Poetess Home Beauty Kits as girls.

    A Day in the Life of a Hip-Hop Grants Administrator 2010

  • A lot of this performance is about Sarah Helen Whitman, who was a wealthy heiress and poetess whom Poe wanted to marry after the death of his first wife, Virginia.

    Buzzine » Nevermore 2009

  • Detroit: 1991, 94 – 103; Bellamy, James A. “Qasmūna the Poetess: Who Was She?”

    Medieval Hebrew Literature: Portrayal of Women. 2009

  • Crowned “the Poetess of Jerusalem” by Sholem Asch (1880 – 1957), Rikudah Potash wrote in Yiddish about the landscape of her beloved city and its diverse ethnic communities.

    Rikudah Potash. 2009

  • Poetess from the literary club Hristo Botev for the purity to Tundja river.

    Initiative poetess against soil activity 2008

  • If you've walked around Green Lake on recent Sunday, you've probably seen the Poetess sitting in her booth. (just south of the Bathhouse Theatre on the Aurora side of the path).

    Sound Politics: The Poetess of Green Lake 2006

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