Poets

A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet might simply be the creator (thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or written), or someone who also performs their art to an audience.

thumb|The Bard (1778) by Benjamin West In Celtic cultures, a bard is an oral repository and professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.

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poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution

Aqyn or akyn (, , ; both transcribed as aqın or اقىن), is an improvisational poet, singer, and oral repository within the Kazakh and Kyrgyz cultures. Aqyns differ from the zhyraus or manaschys, who are instead song performers or epic storytellers.

thumb|Rhapsode by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

thumb|Trouvère song in the 13th century Chansonnier du Roi, BnF fr. 844, fol. 5r. The trouvère depicted is Count [[Theobald II of Bar.]]

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