Answer: POET
POET is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 286 times.
Referring Clues:
- Pound, e.g.
 - Keats, for one
 - "Painter of the soul": D'Israeli
 - Shakespeare, e.g.
 - Versifier
 - 58-Across, e.g.
 - Rhymer
 - Sexton or Pope, e.g.
 - Dickinson or Frost, e.g.
 - Gwendolyn Brooks, e.g.
 - One concerned with feet
 - Verse writer
 - Langston Hughes, e.g.
 - One who works with feet
 - O'Neill's "A Touch of the ___"
 - Shelley, for one
 - One with idyll musings?
 - Coffeehouse performer
 - Sonneteer
 - Sexton, say
 - Laureate figure, maybe
 - Sappho, e.g.
 - Meter reader?
 - Linesman, maybe?
 - Frost or Burns
 - Lay man?
 - Limerick writer, say
 - Yeats or Keats
 - Eliot or Frost
 - "Every man will be a ___ if he can": Thoreau
 - One who handles stress effectively?
 - Foot specialist?
 - Foot specialist
 - Lay person?
 - Coleridge, for one
 - Sonneteer, e.g.
 - Rhyme writer
 - Burns or Browning
 - Meter man?
 - "You're a ___ and don't know it"
 - Lyricist, essentially
 - Coffeehouse attraction, maybe
 - Bard
 - Lord Byron or Lord Tennyson
 - Robert Browning, for one
 - Walt Whitman, for one
 - Walt Whitman, e.g.
 - Robert Frost, for one
 - Robert Pinsky or e. e. cummings
 - Rhymester
 - Browning of pages of verse, for example
 - Haiku author
 - One putting one's feet together?
 - Donne or Bradstreet
 - Slam participant
 - Dante or Dickinson
 - One well-versed in words' worth
 - "I'm a ___ and don't know it!"
 - Keats or Yeats
 - Couplet creator
 - Meter master
 - Virgil, for one
 - Burns, e.g.
 - Slam competitor
 - Limerick writer, e.g.
 - Snug-bug connector?
 - Writer of rhymes
 - Frost, e.g.
 - Burns or Byron
 - One working with feet?
 - One appealing to a meter reader?
 - Pound, for one
 - Frost, say
 - 39-Across writer
 - Pound, notably
 - Ogden Nash, for one
 - Spender, for one
 - Donne, for one
 - One working with feet
 - Coffeehouse entertainer
 - Odist, for one
 - Writer of 11 Down
 - Frost or Pound
 - Blake or Burns
 - Verse's author
 - Coffeehouse reader, perhaps
 - Rap composer, in a way
 - One concerned with rhythm and feet
 - Langston Hughes, for one
 - Tennyson, for one
 - Artist with words
 - Richard Purdy Wilbur, e.g.
 - Pentameter pro
 - Pablo Neruda, e.g.
 - One concerned with feet and rhythm
 - Timotheus or Phrynichus, e.g.
 - Sarton or Burns
 - One with rhythm
 - Frost, for one
 - Metrist, sometimes
 - One inspired by Calliope
 - Imagist
 - Sonnet creator
 - Sonnet writer
 - Whitman or Whittier
 - Wordsworth, for one
 - Donne or Pound, e.g.
 - One who works in feet and meters
 - Sexton or Burns, e.g.
 - One with stressing work?
 - Ezra Pound's profession
 - W.H. Auden or E.E. Cummings
 - Limerick writer
 - Foot massager?
 - Byron or Burns
 - Chaucer or Milton
 - Person creating rhymes
 - One inspired by Erato
 - One working with feet professionally
 - One who works in feet
 - Bard or minstrel
 - Ballad writer
 - Keats or Byron
 - Allen Ginsberg or Jack Kerouac
 - Verse creator
 - Verse expert
 - Skilled wordsmith
 - Shakespeare or Shelley
 - Doggerelist, e.g.
 - Robert Frost, e.g.
 - Keats, e.g.
 - Idyllist, e.g.
 - Rhyme user
 - Job involving stress
 - Foot massage expert?
 - ___ laureate
 - One writing verse
 - Whitman, e.g.
 - Annie Finch or Rita Dove
 - Verse maker
 - Worker with a lot of stress?
 - Coffeehouse reader
 - Auden or Aiken
 - 107 Down, for one
 - Coffeehouse entertainer, sometimes
 - Certain laureate
 - Donne or Rimbaud, e.g.
 - Robert Service
 - Lorna Crozier
 - Baudelaire or Rimbaud, e.g.
 - Recital artist
 - Pablo Neruda, for one
 - Shelley, e.g.
 - One published in a literary magazine, perhaps
 - Haiku maker
 - Kipling or Keats
 - cummings, for one
 - One who deals with stress well?
 - Natasha Trethewey, for one
 - "God is the perfect ___": Browning
 - Doe, e.g.
 - Imaginative writer
 - Emily Dickinson, e.g.
 - Writer of 12-Down
 - One who might go from bed to verse
 - Browning or Kipling
 - Expert on feet?
 - T.S. Eliot or e.e. cummings
 - Byron, e.g.
 - One seeking money for a meter?
 - Rhyme creator
 - Ode composer
 - Master of rhymes
 - Pound or Pope
 - Rhyme master
 - 28-Across, e.g.
 - Prior or Pope
 - Writer of verses
 - One concerned with foot placement
 - Well-versed one?
 - One concerned with rhythm
 - Writer of verse
 - Orpheus, for one
 - Poe or Browning
 - Dealer in 15-Across
 - Yearly Library of Congress appointee
 - Odist, e.g.
 - Keats or Tennyson
 - Epic creator
 - Master rhymer
 - Odist, for instance
 - "Always be a ___, even in prose": Baudelaire
 - Virgil, e.g.
 - Coffeehouse reciter
 - Recital VIP
 - Burns or Sexton, e.g.
 - Pound, but not ounce
 - Well-versed artist?
 - Meter user
 - Donne, e.g.
 - 14-Across, for one
 - Stanza writer
 - Certain Pulitzer Prize recipient
 - Writer of flowery verses
 - Homer and such
 - Brooke or Brooks
 - Expert on meters and feet
 - One who works with meters and feet
 - Browning, e.g.
 - Slam artist
 - Lyricist's kin
 - Maya Angelou, e.g.
 - Meter-watcher
 - Writer whose mission/Is rhymed composition
 - Whitman or Wilbur
 - Sexton or Nemerov
 - Any limerick writer
 - Haiku writer, say
 - Reader at a slam
 - Frost or Browning
 - 35-Across writer
 - Rhythmic versifier
 - Nightingale, per Shelley
 - Wilbur or Merrill
 - Coffee shop entertainer
 - Wilbur or Nemerov
 - Rhymer at a coffeehouse
 - Mary Oliver, e.g.
 - Auden, Blake or Coleridge
 - Shelley's "nightingale"
 - Browning or Burns
 - Person creating verses
 - Many a Pulitzer winner
 - Shakespeare or Pound
 - "Every great architect is ... a great ___": Wright
 - Audre Lorde or Lord Byron
 - Rap writer, e.g.
 - Foot expert?
 - Homer, for one
 - Frost or Nash
 - Gwendolyn Brooks or Ocean Vuong
 - "A nightingale who sits in darkness," per Shelley
 - Person who writes verses
 - One who's well-versed in the arts?
 - Browning but not cooking
 - Expert on feet
 - Angelou or Dickinson
 - Competitor in a verbal slam
 - Ocean Vuong, for example
 - Adrienne Rich or Nikki Giovanni
 - "God is the perfect ___": Robert Browning
 - Amanda Gorman, e.g.
 - Occupation for 32-Down
 - Cameron Awkward-Rich, for example
 - Sappho or Pindar
 - Amanda Gorman or Maya Angelou
 - Khadijah Queen, for one
 - Author Harte
 - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, for one
 - Sharon Olds, e.g.
 - Jenny Zhang, for example
 - Sarah Kay, for example
 - Stress specialist?
 - One who's well-versed
 - Amanda Gorman, for one
 - Maya Angelou, for one
 - Ada Limón, for one
 - Ariana Brown or Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 - Writer such as Nima Yooshij
 - Ode creator
 - Ada Limón, e.g.
 - Audre Lorde, e.g.
 - Wordsmith like Wordsworth
 - 3-Down, for one
 - Versin' person?
 - Literary magazine contributor, perhaps
 - 17-Across, for one
 - Writer such as Mahmoud Darwish
 - Ballad penner
 - Philip Larkin or Patricia Lockwood
 - Rupi Kaur, for one
 - Sappho of Ocean Vuong
 - Limon or Keats, e.g.
 - 68-Across, for one
 - Expert who works with both feet and meters?
 - Troubadour, e.g.
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - October 23, 2025
 - LA Times - October 21, 2025
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 - USA Today - June 03, 2025
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 - USA Today - July 10, 2024
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 - USA Today - April 03, 2024
 - New York Times - March 15, 2024
 - LA Times - February 15, 2024
 - New York Times - January 08, 2024
 - LA Times - November 09, 2023
 - USA Today - November 08, 2023
 - USA Today - August 15, 2023
 - LA Times - July 10, 2023
 
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