Sentence examples for official poet from inspiring English sources

Tournament organizers have named Matt Harvey Wimbledon's first official poet.

Bly was the first official poet laureate of Minnesota (2008 11).

An official poet fits here, perhaps only here, like the smiling stewards who guide fans into seats.

Fittingly, perhaps, the quest to find an official poet laureate in the birthplace of the Beats is becoming surreal.

Joel Barlow, (born March 24 , 1754 Redding, Connecticut [U.S.] died December 24, 1812, Żarnowiec, Poland), public official, poet, and author of the mock-heroic poem The Hasty Pudding.

Al-Farazdaq became official poet to the caliph al-Walīd (reigned 705 715), to whom he dedicated a number of panegyrics.

Increasingly, they also have official poets.

Irish literature was originally aristocratic and was cultivated by the fili, who seem to have inherited the role of the learned priestly order represented in Caesar's Gaul by the Druids, vates ("seers"), and bards and to have been judges, historians, and official poets responsible for all traditional lore and the performance of all rites and ceremonies.

To commemorate the event, Liu Bang had invited high-ranking military and political officials, poets, and teachers to a grand celebration.

There is a film of one of these evenings, and, though it's just a poetry reading (rather than a Beatles concert, say), and though the poems of these semi-official poets weren't especially good, the atmosphere is electric.

The collection also includes a number of volumes presented to Mr. Beue Tann with inscriptions and signatures by well-known government officials, poets, and artists of the Republic of China.