A surname from Old Norse: / Edgar Allan Poe, an American author and poet of the 19th century, known especially for his dark themes. / An unincorporated community in Allen County, Indiana, United States.

A bag pudding. / (derogatory, Scotland) An English person.

A form of performance poetry of West Indian origin, accompanied by music and often of a political nature.

(poetry, jazz) A form of poetry of the 1920s employing jazz-like rhythm or a feeling of improvisation.

A writer of jazz poetry.

Alternative form of prose poem

(literature) A literary text written in the manner of prose—without the fixed lines, rhyme, and meter often characteristic of poetry—but nonetheless clearly possessing some of the distinctive attributes of poetry, such as lyrical language, evocation of feeling, vivid imagery, metaphor, and linguistic devices like assonance or alliteration.

(historical) Any of certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote only about the Trojan war and its heroes. / (by extension) Any of a coterie of poets writing on one subject.

(obsolete) A bad poet; a poetaster.

In poetry slams, a poet who goes first and gets scored by the judges, but is not actually in the competition. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sacrificial, poet.