Meeting covering new poet (5)
I believe the answer is:
dante
'poet' is the definition.
(Dante is an example)
'meeting covering new' is the wordplay.
'meeting' becomes 'date' (date is a kind of meeting**).
'covering' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'new' becomes 'n'.
'date' enclosing 'n' is 'DANTE'.
(Other definitions for dante that I've seen before include "Finally stand before" , "Italian poet, writer of the Divine Comedy" , "Thirteenth-fourteenth century Italian poet" , "Thirteenth to fourteenth century Italian poet" , "La divina commedia poet" .)