They have been writing greeting card verse for hundreds of years. People used to call any animal that writes poetry a poet. The poetaster is not a true poet. The poetess and poet laureate are not true poets either. None of these animals has a backbone.
Many people still think of literary critics as poets.
They would change their minds if they saw a baby literary critic nursing. Martin Amis is a Big Fat Idiot I used to live on the Upper West Side in 1995. No, I didn't. I lived on Avenue B in 1995. I always say I lived on the Upper West Side though.