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- noun Plural form of
poetess .
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Examples
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Thaler took poetry industry analysts by surprise, winning the competition with a single couplet and upsetting several gloomy competing poetesses who had written longer works.
Men Go to Great Lengths to Woo Reclusive Poetess Con Chapman 2011
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Not as many panels of interest this year, and there was the exhaustion factor - but hanging out with a troupe of lovely singing poetesses all weekend was totally worth it.
Monday enderfem 2009
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The obvious choices here are Sylvia Plath or Anne Sexton, two confessional poetesses who committed suicide.
Feminist Gift-Shopping is Man's Work Con Chapman 2011
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Boston may no longer be the Hub of the Universe, but its Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area remains the undisputed capital of America in at least one respect — home of suicidal poetesses.
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But there's no reasoning with a woman who self-aestheticizes — if that's a word — in the hope that it will make her stand out in the crowded field of disturbed young poetesses.
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“Meydlekh, Froyen, Vayber — Yidishe Dikhterins” [Girls, women, wives — Yiddish poetesses].
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When Kadya Molodowsky turned to the question of women poets, she echoed parts of her earlier argument with Ravitsh and wrote a sarcastic dismissal of the very concept of “women poetesses.”
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Many film actors and actresses as well as poets and poetesses have also taken party in the gherao rallies organized by the Maoist party.
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In 1927, Melekh Ravitsh published an article whose critical stance can be discerned in its title: “Meydlekh, Froyen, Vayber — Yidishe Dikhterins” [Girls, women, wives — Yiddish poetesses].
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Grin divided his entries by country, including the biographies of twenty-seven women under the heading “American Yiddish poetesses.”
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