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1 Introduction
2 A-D
3 E-K
4 L-R
5 S-Z
[F] Women's Health / Women /
List of women poets

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A-D


  • Fleur Adcock

  • Delmira Agustini (1886-1914), Uruguay|Uruguayan poet

  • Bella Akhmadulina

  • Anna Akhmatova

  • Ethel Anderson

  • Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

  • Maya Angelou

  • Rae Armantrout

  • Thea Astley

  • Margaret Atwood

  • Dorothy Auchterlonie

  • Pam Ayres

  • Joanna Baillie

  • Anna Laetitia Barbauld

  • Djuna Barnes

  • Katharine Lee Bates

  • Aphra Behn

  • Gwendolyn B. Bennett

  • Elizabeth Bishop

  • Susanna Blamire

  • Eavan Boland

  • Anne Bradstreet

  • Charlotte Bront??

  • Emily Bront??

  • Gwendolyn Brooks

  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • May Wedderburn Cannan

  • Alice Cary

  • Phoebe Cary

  • Rosario Castellanos

  • Rosal??a de Castro

  • Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

  • Cherubina de Gabriak

  • Chrystos

  • Sandra Cisneros

  • Sarah N. Cleghorn

  • Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

  • Wendy Cope

  • Corinna

  • Yvonne Cullen

  • Leona Czwartkowski

  • H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)

  • Tina Darragh

  • Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)

  • Emily Dickinson

  • Diane Di Prima

  • Maura Dooley

  • Rita Dove

  • Carol Ann Duffy

  • http://www.geocities.com/a_wakeela/azza.html Azza El Wakeel

E-K


  • Florbela Espanca

  • Parvin E'tesami

  • Forough Farrokhzad

  • Jayne Fenton Keane

  • Anne Kingsmill Finch|Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

  • Penelope Fitzgerald

  • Alice Fulton

  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) Her first book, In This Our World, was a book of poetry

  • Mary Gilmour|Dame Mary Gilmour

  • Madeline Gleason

  • Hattie Gossett

  • Angelina Weld Grimke

  • Charlotte Forten Grimke

  • Joy Harjo

  • Carla Harryman

  • Gwen Harwood

  • Anne H??bert

  • Lyn Hejinian

  • Felicia Hemans

  • Hilda Hilst

  • Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), author of Battle Hymn of the Republic

  • Fanny Howe

  • Susan Howe

  • Ada Verdun Howell (1902-1981)

  • Juana de Ibarbarou (1892-1979), Uruguay|Uruguayan poet

  • Jean Ingelow

  • Elizabeth Jennings

  • Erica Jong

  • Ingrid Jonker

  • Jenny Joseph

  • Sor Juana

  • Tamai Kobayashi

  • Joanne Kyger

L-R


  • Leona Guthrie poet, author of "A Child's Rain," and a photography and teacher

  • Lalleshvari Kashmiri poet

  • Aemilia Lanyer - first Englishwoman to publish a volume of original poems and to seek patronage

  • Lucy Larcom (1824-1893), millgirl, frequent contributor to the Lowell Offering, published four books of poetry in her lifetime

  • Newoka LaShelle- poetess, author Ode Poet Valley, and spoken word artist

  • Evelyn Lau

  • Emma Lazarus (1849-1887), best known for her poem The New Colossus (inscribed on the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World)

  • Mary Leapor

  • Denise Levertov

  • Anne Lok (alternate sp. Lock or Locke, First published sonnet sequence in English, Meditation of a Penitent Sinner in 1560)

  • Amy Lowell

  • Mina Loy

  • Esther Mathews

  • Marie de France

  • Cec??lia Meireles

  • Charlotte Mew

  • M??ire Mhac an tSaoi

  • Josephine Miles

  • Grazyna Miller

  • Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • Gabriela Mistral

  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

  • Geraldine Monk

  • Marianne Moore

  • Barbara Moraff

  • Hannah More

  • Wendy Mulford

  • Sarojini Naidu

  • Adalgisa Nery (1905-1980), Brazil|Brazilian poet, novelist, journalist and politician

  • Eil??an N?? Chuillean??in

  • Nuala N?? Dhomhnaill

  • Lorine Niedecker

  • Grace Fallow Norton

  • Mona Oikawa

  • Sharon Olds

  • Mary Devenport O'Neill

  • Maggie O'Sullivan

  • Mirabai Hindu mystical poet

  • Ruth Padel

  • Vance and Nettie Palmer|Nettie Palmer

  • Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960), suffragist, wrote Writ on Cold Slate, poems about her prison experience, in 1922

  • Dorothy Parker

  • Katherine Phillips

  • Ruth Pitter

  • Christine de Pizan

  • Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972), Argentina|Argentine poet

  • Sylvia Plath

  • Amrita Pritam (1919-2005) India, Punjabi

  • Dalia Rabikovich

  • Elaine Randell

  • Adrienne Rich

  • Lola Ridge

  • Denise Riley

  • Christina Rossetti

  • Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)

S-Z


  • Blanaid Salkeld

  • Sappho

  • Nina Serrano

  • Anne Sexton

  • Jo Shapcott

  • Mary Sidney

  • Edith Sitwell

  • Myra Sklarew

  • Stevie Smith

  • Gertrude Stein

  • Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938), Argentina|Argentine poet

  • May Swenson

  • Sara Teasdale

  • Celia Thaxter

  • Elizabeth Thomas

  • Veronica Forrest-Thomson

  • Kitty Tsui

  • Marina Tsvetaeva

  • Janine Pommy Vega

  • Ren??e Vivien French poet

  • Diane Wakoski

  • Rosmarie Waldrop

  • Anne Waldman

  • Alice Walker

  • Catherine Walsh (born 1964)

  • Hannah Weiner

  • Phillis Wheatley

  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  • Shabnam Sharma anmol ratan kavyakunj--- hindi poet

  • Anna Wickham

  • Judith Wright

  • Lady Mary Wroth - prolific author of the Jacobean era

  • Elinor Wylie

  • Olga Xirinacs D??az

  • Adela Zamudio (1854-1928), Bolivia|Bolivian poet

See also


  • poetry

  • poetess

  • list of poets

External links


  • http://www.fembio.org/default.shtml FemBio - Notable Women International includes biographies of poets


Category:Lists of poets|women poets
Category:Lists of women|Poets
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