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1. Sappho
2. Mīrābāī
3. Phillis Wheatley
4. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
5. Emily Dickinson
1 week ago Web Sappho – c. 630-c.570 BC. To kick off the list, we’re throwing it back to Ancient Greece. Sappho was a poet who lived on the island of Lesbos, where she was known for her lyric poetry. Affectionately known as the “tenth muse” and “the poetess” of her time, Sappho’s …
3 days ago Web Let’s delve into the list of 20 women who shaped poetry. 1. Sappho. Sappho was a Greek lyric poet. She was admired for the beauty of her writing style. Her poems were …
2 days ago Web Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images. (June 7, 1917 - December 3, 2000) Gwendolyn Brooks was the poet laureate of Illinois and, in 1950, became the first African American …
3 days ago Web Emily Dickinson is one of the most famous female poets of all time, and her collection spans more than 1,800 works, including classics such as “Hope is the thing with …
6 days ago Web Poetry and Feminism. Tracing the fight for equality and women’s rights through poetry. In 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning published Aurora Leigh, a “novel in verse” that follows …
1 week ago Web Isabella di Morra (c. 1520–1546), Italian poet of the Petrarchist movement. Martha Moulsworth (1577–1646), English autobiographical poet. Cecilia del Nacimiento …
1 week ago Web Historically, many female poets had inspired and contributed many artistic works to the world. The poem contains the intense emotions, beautiful feelings and deep reflections …
4 days ago Web Christina Rossetti (1830-94) was one of the Victorian era’s greatest and most influential poets. Goblin Market and Other Poems was the first collection of her poetry to be …
6 days ago Web Women’s History Month - March is Women’s History Month, a time for us to celebrate the lives and accomplishments of extraordinary, influential women. In particular, we …
1 week ago Web The women poets taking over the world. If poetry makes you think of stuffy classrooms and impenetrable verse, think again. Holly Williams takes a look at the female poets …
2 days ago Web Phillis Wheatley. 1753–1784. Stock illustration from Getty Images. Although she was an enslaved person, Phillis Wheatley Peters was one of the best-known poets in pre-19th …
1 week ago Web There was room at the inn. There was time to be floated as witches. When night came, an egg-moon slid over the steeple. We stared at the blue yolk yawning in the fire. Our …
1 day ago Web Indispensable women poets such as Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, and Felicia Dorothea Hemans; the Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns; and the farm laborer–poet John …
1 week ago Web I’m Czar – I’m ‘Woman’ now –. It’s safer so –. Dickinson, famously, never married – but here, in this poem, Dickinson adopts the voice of a wife as a way of musing upon the …
5 days ago Web In the mid-1920s, Her poetry and artwork were published in the The Crisis, NAACP’s journal, Opportunity magazine, and Alaine Locke’s New Negro. Some of her best-known poems …
2 days ago Web the falling paper flower. the plastic tree branch. the plight of reminiscing. the bureaucracy of kismet. the factories empty of logic. the bins to hold what’s done. the spaceship of …
5 days ago Web All five of the women poets discussed below lived before the 20th century (so in the 1800’s or earlier). Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing more women poets, each week …
1 week ago Web Award-winning Scottish poet, Carol Ann Duffy, was the first openly gay female poet to be appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. While her poetry often has a strong …
1 week ago Web Classical Women Poets. Josephine Balmer. Bloodaxe, 1996 - Poetry - 158 pages. Fragmented and forgotten, the women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long …
1 week ago Web 10 Female Poets That Inspire Us In 2024. “ May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.”. – Sappho ( c. 630 – …
1 day ago Web Poets - Search more than 2,500 biographies of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and William Wordsworth, and …
1 week ago Web Japan has a long history of recognizing the talents of great female poets. During the Heian period (794–1185), the golden age of the Japanese imperial court, women stood out as …
4 days ago Web Julia de Burgos (1914 – 1953), was a Puerto Rican poet and activist. She was also an advocate for Puerto Rican independence and served as Secretary General of the …