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the first poet,
Mesopotamian priestess,
but what of the gatherers, who,
playing with sounds,
invented alliteration
and all that stuff,
millennia before?


A somewhat superficial account of the world's earliest known poet:

World's first poet: https://lithub.com/why-has-no-one-ever-heard-of-the-worlds-first-poet/

More about Enheduanna, the world's earliest known poet, with translations of some of her poems:

http://www.transoxiana.org/0108/roberts-enheduanna.html