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
• Dickinson, e.g.
• Author of rhymes
• Rhyming verse writer
• Longfellow, e.g.
• Ferlinghetti, notably
• Worker of rhymes
• Jim Morrison, e.g.
• "Roses are red" speaker
• Rhyming writer
• Burns or Frost
• Dylan, for one
• Morrissey "Sister I'm a ___"
• Lyricist, often
• US author Frost ultimately - this?
• Fit clothes round anything put across here?
• Writer such as Ogden Nash
• Maybe I'm one and don't know it
• He's no peasant!
• He writes beautifully
• Dickinson or Dove
• Sexton, e.g.
• 28 11 e.g. keeps key in jar
• Cocktail of drugs for liner
• Coffee shop open-mike performer, perhaps
• 67 Down, e.g.
• Metrist, perhaps
• Master of allusion?
• Foot man?
• Pound or Moore, e.g.
• Spenser or Spender
• Maya Angelou, e.g.
• 31-Across, e.g.
• Blake or Byron
• Keats or Browning
• Verse pro
• Person who writes rhymes
• Writer whose mission/Is rhymed composition
• Minstrel, e.g.
• Reader at an open mic
• Any limerick writer
• Haiku writer, say
• Reader at a slam
• Frost or Browning
• Writer has time for another
• 35-Across writer
• Rhythmic versifier
• Rondeau writer
• Nightingale, per Shelley
• Maya Angelou, for one
• Coffee shop entertainer
• Allen Ginsberg, for one
• Competitor in a slam
• Rhymer at a coffeehouse
• Writer of odes
• Mary Oliver, e.g.
• Thomas or Milton
• Auden, Blake or Coleridge
• Shelley's "nightingale"
• Browning or Burns
• Person creating verses
• Many a Pulitzer winner
• Shakespeare or Pound
• Dickey or Dickinson
• Bard's sweetheart with a hidden love
• "Every great architect is ... a great ___": Wright
• Office to which John Dryden was appointed in 1668
• Audre Lorde or Lord Byron
• Rap writer, e.g.
• Foot expert?
• Rap composer, e.g.
• Lyricist
• 34-Across, e.g.
• Homer, for one
• Sandburg, e.g.
• Frost or Nash
• Meter man?
• Writer of potent pieces
• Wordsworth or Whitman
• Gwendolyn Brooks or Ocean Vuong
• "A nightingale who sits in darkness," per Shelley
• Reciter at a slam
• Person who writes verses
• One who's well-versed in the arts?
• Browning but not cooking
• Frost or Keats, e.g.
• Angelou or Dickinson
• Competitor in a verbal slam
• Ocean Vuong, for example
• Writer of rhyming lines
• Adrienne Rich or Nikki Giovanni
• "God is the perfect ___": Robert Browning
• Joy Harjo, for one
• Amanda Gorman, e.g.
• Cameron Awkward-Rich, for example
• Maker of clever rhymes
• Sappho or Pindar
• Amanda Gorman or Maya Angelou
• Khadijah Queen, for one
• Rita Dove or Rita Joe
• Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, for one
• Writer of odes or tanka
• Wendy Chen, for example
• Sharon Olds, e.g.
• Jenny Zhang, for example
• Sarah Kay, for example
• Gwen Nell Westerman, for one
• Bard with rhymes
• One who's well-versed
• Writer of 2-Down
• Stress specialist?
• Performer at a slam
• Amanda Gorman, for one
• Meter reader?
• Creator of rhymes
• Keats, Browning, etc.
• Artist using line breaks
• 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.
• Eliot or Auden
• 3-Down, for one
• Versin' person?
• Shel Silverstein or A.A. Milne
• Literary magazine contributor, perhaps
• Frost or Keats
• Writer such as Mahmoud Darwish
• Philip Larkin or Patricia Lockwood
• Rupi Kaur, for one
• Writer such as Alice Oswald
• 68-Across, for one
• Expert who works with both feet and meters?
• Troubadour, e.g.
• Sonia Sanchez, for one
• One versed in verse
• Pound or Frost
• T.S. Eliot or W.H. Auden
• Pulitzer winner Jericho Brown, for one
• One who measures meter by the feet?
• Open mic performer, often
• Ode writer