Answer: POETS
POETS is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 145 times.
Referring Clues:
- Masters and Jonson, e.g.
 - Homer and others
 - Burns and Allen, e.g.
 - People concerned with feet
 - Masters and Jonson
 - "The only poor fellows in the world whom anyone will flatter": Pope
 - ___ Corner, part of Westminster Abbey
 - They're "born, not made," according to an old saying
 - Certain people buried in Westminster Abbey
 - Meter readers?
 - Meter makers
 - People who deal with stress successfully?
 - Keats and Horace, for two
 - Pound and others
 - Keats and Yeats, for two
 - Sonneteers, say
 - Pound and Poe
 - Erato is their Muse
 - Yeats and Keats
 - Poe and more
 - Sandburg and Silverstein
 - Keats and Yeats
 - Limerick authors, say
 - Couplet composers
 - Browning and Burns
 - Meter experts?
 - Burns and Byron
 - 5-Down and others
 - Well-versed ones?
 - Artists in a Robin Williams film title
 - This puzzle's theme
 - Pulitzer candidates
 - Verse writers
 - Rhyme writers
 - Byron and Burns
 - Byron and Keats
 - They're well-versed
 - They're ''born, not made''
 - Well-versed folks?
 - Lovelace and Frost, for two
 - Writers of sonnets
 - Ruth Lilly Prize winners
 - Angelou and Cummings, e.g.
 - Donne and Bradstreet
 - Meter masters?
 - Both Brownings
 - "Dead ___ Society"
 - Bards
 - Ode writers
 - They're "born, not made"
 - Dealers in meters and feet
 - Foot men?
 - Frost and Burns
 - Frost and Burns
 - Frost and Burns
 - Frost and Burns
 - Frost and Burns
 - Frost and Burns?
 - Frost and Burns
 - Frost and Burns
 - Frost and others
 - Performers at some readings
 - 'Dead ___ Society'
 - Burns and Frost
 - Burns and Browning
 - Browning and Blake
 - Some open mic performers
 - Sonneteers, for instance
 - Browning and more
 - Versifiers
 - Keats and Shelley
 - Greeting card writers
 - Poe and Pound, e.g.
 - Gilbert and Teasdale
 - Whitman and Whittier
 - Sonnet writers, say
 - Some laureates
 - Rhyming writers
 - Meter pros
 - Poe and Pope
 - Millay and Milton
 - Longfellow and Burns
 - ___ Corner (Westminster Abbey locale)
 - Ones with muses
 - Erato's group
 - Dickinson and Browning, e.g.
 - Wordsworth and Whitman
 - Odists and sonneteers
 - Masters of rhyme
 - Coffeehouse entertainers
 - Lear and Nash
 - Byron and Browning
 - See 35-Down
 - Sexton and Plath, e.g.
 - 14-Across creators
 - Producers of 35-Across
 - Open-mic readers
 - People thinking on their feet?
 - Limerick writers, e.g.
 - Kilmer and Keats
 - Keats and colleagues
 - Users of rhyme schemes
 - Shelley's "unacknowledged legislators of the world"
 - Verse creators
 - Ode authors
 - Verse pros
 - Larkin and Plath, e.g.
 - Meter masters
 - Ones concerned with stress
 - "Dead ___ Society": 1989 film
 - Lovelace's colleagues
 - Well-versed people?
 - Masterful rhymers
 - Writers of haiku
 - Wilbur and Kunitz
 - Masters of meters
 - Reciters at slams
 - Literary figures
 - Writers of verse
 - ___ Corner, section of Westminster Abbey
 - Authors of verse
 - People writing verses
 - Fitting nickname for athletes at Whittier College
 - Masters of allusion
 - They work with feet and meters
 - Browning and Byron
 - Some write limericks
 - Authors of verses
 - Elizabeth Acevedo and David Dabydeen, for two
 - Meter creators
 - Foot specialists?
 - Sina Queyras and Mary Lambert, for two
 - Audre Lorde and Lord Byron, e.g.
 - Sappho and Mirabai
 - Writers at slams
 - They form lines for their work
 - The Brownings, e.g.
 - Writers of odes
 - Experts who deal with stress?
 - Rappers, in a sense
 - Writers like Joy Harjo, Tracy K. Smith, etc.
 - They work in meters
 - Johnson and Jonson
 - Masters of allusion?
 - Amanda Gorman and Mary Oliver
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - September 19, 2025
 - USA Today - August 05, 2025
 - New York Times - March 26, 2025
 - LA Times - October 25, 2024
 - New York Times - September 22, 2024
 - LA Times - September 15, 2024
 - New York Times - December 30, 2023
 - USA Today - September 08, 2023
 - New York Times - July 20, 2023
 - LA Times - June 14, 2023
 - USA Today - June 12, 2023
 - LA Times - March 09, 2023
 - New York Times - January 28, 2023
 - USA Today - November 18, 2022
 - New York Times - October 02, 2022
 - LA Times - September 11, 2022
 - USA Today - July 29, 2022
 - LA Times - March 05, 2022
 - LA Times - December 10, 2021
 - USA Today - June 22, 2021
 
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