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Poesía gauchesca
Poesía gauchesca is a poetic genre of the Río de la Plata in which urban, lettered authors write in the voice and speech of the gaucho.
Poesía no eres tú
Poesía no eres tú is a 1972 compilation of the collected poetry of Mexican writer Rosario Castellanos, published by the Fondo de Cultura Económica in its Letras Mexicanas series.
Poesias
Poesias is the first poetry collection of the Brazilian Parnassian poet Olavo Bilac, published in São Paulo in 1888 and expanded into a definitive edition in 1902.
Poesie
Poesie is the title of two central books by Italian poet Sandro Penna: the 1939 debut collection published in Florence, and the 1970 complete Garzanti anthology Tutte le poesie.
Poésies
Poésies is the conventional title for the collected verse poems of Arthur Rimbaud, about a hundred poems written between 1870 and 1875 and grouped by editors into three ensembles.
Poet
A poet is a person who composes poems, from Greek poētēs 'maker'. Covers written and oral poets, from Gilgamesh and Homer to griots and Finnegan's oral case studies, plus ethnopoetics and AI-poetry comparisons.
Poet and Crowd
Poet and Crowd (Поэт и толпа) is an 1828 poem by Alexander Pushkin, a dialogue in which a Poet defends art's independence from a crowd demanding usefulness.
Poet Biorefining – Emmetsburg
POET Biorefining – Emmetsburg is a dry-mill corn ethanol plant near Emmetsburg, Iowa, producing 50 million gallons a year and co-located with Project LIBERTY, a cellulosic ethanol joint venture of POET and DSM.
POET Grain, LLC
POET Grain, LLC is a Delaware grain merchandising company formed in 2014 within the POET biofuel family, based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, which raised $141 million of a $200 million equity round in 2014.
Poet in New York
Poet in New York (Poeta en Nueva York) is a poetry collection by Federico García Lorca, written in 1929–1930 during his stay in New York and Cuba, published posthumously in 1940.
Poet laureate
Poet laureate: an official poet appointed by a state or body, first formally created for John Dryden in 1668; covers the UK ten-year laureateship, the US Library of Congress position (1937, renamed 1985), duties, pay, and national variants.
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
The Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, also called the British laureateship, is an honorary royal post dating to Ben Jonson's 1616 pension and formally created for John Dryden in 1668; since 1999 a ten-year term, currently held by Simon Armitage.
Poet on a Mountaintop
Poet on a Mountaintop is a Ming dynasty album leaf in ink by Shen Zhou, showing a lone scholar gazing at misty peaks; it hangs in Kansas City.
Poetic device
A poetic device is a technique a poet uses to create effects of meaning, sound, imagery, or structure in a poem. Includes metaphor, simile, alliteration, anaphora, allusion, irony, symbol, motif, and their distinctions.
Poetic Edda
The Poetic Edda, also called the Elder Edda, is a collection of anonymous Old Norse mythological and heroic poems preserved chiefly in the Codex Regius manuscript.
Poetic form and versification
Poetic form is the organizing pattern of a poem, built from line count, rhyme scheme, and meter; versification is the craft of producing and analyzing those patterns.
Poetic Justice (film)
Poetic Justice is a 1993 American romantic drama directed and written by John Singleton, starring Janet Jackson in her film debut and Tupac Shakur in a road-trip romance.
Poetic License (film)
Poetic License is a 2025 American comedy, the feature directorial debut of Maude Apatow, written by Raffi Donatich, starring Leslie Mann, Cooper Hoffman, and Andrew Barth Feldman; premiered at TIFF 2025, later acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for 2027.
Poetic Realism
Poetic Realism, coined by Otto Ludwig, is the German variant of literary Realism, dated 1848 to about 1890, in which writers softened everyday reality instead of depicting its full harshness.
Poetica
Poetica: Zeitschrift für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft is a German-language peer-reviewed journal of comparative literature and linguistics, founded in 1967 at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and now published irregularly by Brill | Fink.
Poetica Vaginal
Poetica Vaginal is a 1985 artwork by Joe Davis: ballerinas' recorded vaginal contractions, translated into text, music, and radio signals, were beamed via MIT's Millstone radar toward Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti before the Air Force shut it down.
Poetical Stela
The Poetical Stela of Thutmose III is a granite stela from Karnak where the god Amun-Re recounts victories granted to the king, now in Cairo.
Poetics (Aristotle)
Aristotle's Poetics (Peri poietikes), a two-book treatise of which the comedy book is lost, analyzes poetry as mimesis, defines tragedy by six parts with plot first, and ties tragic effect to catharsis through pity and fear.
Poetics of Relation
Poetics of Relation (French: Poétique de la relation) is a 1990 book of essays by Martinican writer Édouard Glissant, developing the concepts of Relation, opacity, and creolization.
Poetism
Poetism was a Czech avant-garde literary and artistic movement of the 1920s, led by Karel Teige and Vítězslav Nezval, that treated art as a way of life.
Poetovio
Poetovio (Petoviona, Colonia Ulpia Traiana Poetovio), Roman legionary base and veteran colony at modern Ptuj, Slovenia, on the Amber Route's Drava crossing; Trajanic colony, Illyrian customs headquarters, five mithraea, abandoned by the mid-5th century.
Poetry
Poetry is a form of art that employs human language for its aesthetic qualities alongside or instead of semantic content, using devices such as the line, stanza, meter, and rhyme.
Poetry (magazine)
Poetry is a monthly verse magazine founded in Chicago in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, known for publishing early work by Eliot, Pound, and H.D., and endowed by Ruth Lilly's 2002 bequest.
Poetry (시) (2010 film)
Poetry (시, Shi) is Lee Chang-dong's 2010 South Korean drama about Mija, a grandmother with early Alzheimer's who joins a poetry class while her grandson is implicated in a schoolgirl's death. It won Best Screenplay at Cannes 2010 and starred Yoon Jeong-hee in her comeback.
Poetry Africa
Poetry Africa is an annual international poetry festival in Durban, South Africa, curated by the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Centre for Creative Arts and running since 1996.