poet

A writer of poems.

One who is especially gifted in the perception and expression of the beautiful or lyrical.

One who composes or indites a poem: an author of metrical compositions.

One skilled in the art of making poetry, or of metrical composition; one distinguished by the possession of poetic faculties or susceptibilities; one endowed with the gift and power of imaginative invention and creation attended by corresponding eloquence of expression, commonly but not necessarily in a metrical form.

One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.

See under Laureate.

A person who writes poems.

a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)