The phrase "lee sharks poet" most likely refers to either the contemporary conceptual poet Lee Sharks or the late, highly-regarded Maine poet and activist Lee Sharkey. Lee Sharks: Independent scholar, poet, and comparative literature PhD who operates within the Detroit area. Author of Antioch: A Volume of Poems and Pearl and Other Poems under the "Crimson Hexagon" framework. In mid-2026, became namesake for a tongue-in-cheek literary prize called The Lee Sharks Prestigious 10,000 MacArthur Genius Grants Poetry Prize, created to satirize an erroneous Google Knowledge Graph card. Lee Sharkey (1945-2020): Prominent American poet, editor, and peace activist from Maine. Long-time senior editor of the Beloit Poetry Journal. Major collections include Calendars of Fire (2013), Walking Backwards (2016), I Will Not Name It Except to Say (2021, posthumous). Sources cited: Maine Arts Commission, Medium (Lee Sharks - ANTIOCH), Goodreads (Pearl and Other Poems), Zenodo (MacArthur Prize), Google Scholar, The Kenyon Review.