This is a list of feminist poets . Historically, literature has been a male-dominated sphere, and any poetry written by a woman could be seen as feminist . Often, feminist poetry refers to that which was composed after the 1960s and the second wave of the feminist movement.[ 1] [ 2]
Kathy Acker (1947–1997), American experimental novelist, punk poet , playwright and essayistMaya Angelou (1928–2014), American author and poetElvia Ardalani (born 1963), Mexican poet, writer and storytellerMargaret Atwood (born 1939), Canadian poet, novelist and criticMaryam Jafari Azarmani (born 1977), Iranian poet, Sonneteer, essayist, literary critic, translatorAddie L. Ballou (1837–1916), American poet and suffragistDjuna Barnes (1892–1982), American modernist lesbian writerAphra Behn (1640–1689), dramatist of the English Restoration and among first English professional female writersElizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), American poet and short-story writerEavan Boland (1944–2020), Irish poetSophia Elisabet Brenner (1659–1730), Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostessOlga Broumas (born 1949), Greek poet living in the United StatesLucille Clifton (1936–2010), American writer and educatorMary Collier (c. 1688–1762), English poetJeni Couzyn (born 1942), Canadian poet and anthologist of South African extractionRosemary Daniell (born 1935), American poet and author, known as a second-wave feminist and for writing about the deep southH.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961), American poet, novelist and memoirist known for Imagist poetryDiane Di Prima (1934–2020), American poetZoraida Díaz (1881–1948), Panamanian poet, educator, and feministEmily Dickinson (1830–1886), American poetCarol Ann Duffy (born 1955), Scottish poet and playwright; first female and first Scottish Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom Rachel Blau DuPlessis (born 1941), American poet and essayist known as a feminist critic and scholar
Muzi Epifani (1935–1984), Italian writer and poetMary Eliza Fullerton (1868–1946), Australian feminist poet, short story writer, journalist and novelistAlice Fulton (born 1952), American author, poetFrances Dana Barker Gage (1808–1884), American writer, poet, reformer, feminist and abolitionist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), American sociologist, author, poet and lecturer for social reform Hedwig Gorski (born 1949), American poet, author, artist, dramatist, and scholarJudy Grahn (born 1940), American feminist, lesbian poetBarbara Guest (1920–2006), American poet, authorMarilyn Hacker (born 1942), American poet, translator and criticJudith Hall (born 1951), American poet, literary editor, educational writer, essayist, illustrator and educatorJane Eaton Hamilton (born 1954), Canadian poet, fiction writer, photographer, and visual artistGwen Harwood (1920–1995), Australian poet and librettist Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958), American/Canadian poetLyn Hejinian (born 1941), American poet, essayist, translator and publisherDorothy Hewett (1923–2002), Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist and playwrightSusan Howe (born 1937), American poet, scholar, essayist and critic; closely associated with the Language poetsTerri L. Jewell (1954–1995), American author, poet and Black lesbian activistKiyémis (born 1993), French Afro-feminist and poetCarolyn Kizer (1925–2014), Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet; noted for her feminist poetry
Sue Lenier (born 1957), English poet and playwrightAnna Maria Lenngren (1754–1817), Swedish writer, poet, feminist, translator and salonnièreDenise Levertov (1923–1997), British-born American poetPatricia Lockwood (born 1982), American poet and essayistAudre Lorde (1934–1992), Caribbean-American writer, poet and activistMina Loy (1882–1966), artist, poet, playwright and novelist, Futurist Chris Mansell (born 1953), Australian poet and publisherEdna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950), American lyrical poet, playwright and feministGabriela Mistral (Lucila Godoy Alcayaga) (1889–1957), Chilean poet, educator and feminist; first Latin American to win Nobel Prize in Literature Marianne Moore (1887–1972), American Modernist poet and writerBarbara Mor (1936–2015), American feminist of the Goddess movement Robin Morgan (born 1941), American poet, author, political theorist and activist Eileen Myles (born 1949) American poet and writer, Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and LGBT activistKishwar Naheed (born 1940), Urdu poet from Pakistan known for her pioneering feminist poetryLorine Niedecker (1903–1970), American poet; only woman associated with Objectivist poets Barbara Noda (1953), third generation Japanese American poet[ 3] Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht (1718–1763), Swedish poet, feminist and salon hostess Alice Notley (born 1945), American poet and feministAlicia Ostriker (born 1937), American poet and scholar writing Jewish feminist poetryGrace Paley (1922–2007), American-Jewish short story writer, poet, and political activist Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960), English suffragist , poetDorothy Parker (1893–1967), American poet, short story writer, critic and satiristSylvia Plath (1932–1963), American poet, novelist and short story writerKatha Pollitt (born 1949), American feminist poet, essayist and criticQiu Jin (1875–1907), Chinese revolutionary, feminist and writerRita Mae Reese (living), American poet, fiction writer, and publisherFahmida Riaz (1946–2018), Urdu writer, poet, and feminist of PakistanAdrienne Rich (1929–2012), American poet, essayist and feministDorothy Richardson (1873–1957), English novelist, poet, essayist and short story writerLola Ridge (1873–1941), anarchist poet and editor of avant-garde , feminist, and Marxist publicationsEthel Rolt-Wheeler (1869–1958), English poet, author and journalistChristina Rossetti (1830–1894), English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poemsMuriel Rukeyser (1913–1980), American poet and political activist
Nandini Sahu (born 1973), Indian poet writing in English Sonia Sanchez (born 1934), African-American poet often associated with Black Arts Movement Sappho (fl. 6th century BCE), Ancient Greek poet; one of the nine lyric poets Henriette Sauret (1890-1976), French feminist pacifist poet, writer, journalistAnne Sexton (1928–1974), American poet known for personal, confessional verse Parveen Shakir (1952–1994), Urdu poet, teacher and civil servant in PakistanJo Shapcott (born 1953), English poet, editor and lecturerElena Shirman (1908–1942), Russian poetEdith Sitwell (1887–1964), British poet and critic, eldest of three literary SitwellsStevie Smith (1902–1971), English poet and novelistGertrude Stein (1874–1946), American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of life in FranceAlfonsina Storni (1892–1938), Swiss-Argentine poetLynn Strongin (born 1939), American poetMay Swenson (1913–1989), American poet and playwrightSara Teasdale (1884–1933), American lyrical poet Ann Townsend (born 1962) American poet and essayistMarina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), Russian and Soviet poetAnne Waldman (born 1945), American poetRosmarie Waldrop (born 1935), American poet, translator and publisherAlice Walker (born 1944), American author, poet, and activistPhyllis Webb (1927–2021), Canadian poet and radio broadcasterNellie Wong (born 1934), Chinese-American feminist poetMerle Woo (born 1941), Asian-American teacher, poet and activistJudith Wright (1915–2000), Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights Elinor Wylie (1885–1928), American poet and novelistHalima Xudoyberdiyeva (1947–2018), Uzbek poet; People's Poet of UzbekistanMitsuye Yamada (born 1923), Japanese-American activist, feminist, essayist, poet, story writer, editor, and professorEsperanza Zambrano (1901-1992), Mexican poet of Modernismo movement
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