List of women poets
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A-D
- Fleur Adcock
- Delmira Agustini (1886-1914), Uruguayan poet
- 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 Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- May Wedderburn Cannan
- Alice Cary
- Phoebe Cary
- Rosario Castellanos
- Rosalía de Castro
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
- Chrystos
- Sandra Cisneros
- Sarah N. Cleghorn
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
- Wendy Cope
- Corinna
- 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
- Azza El Wakeel (http://www.geocities.com/a_wakeela/azza.html)
E-K
- Florbela Espanca
- Parvin E'tesami
- Forough Farrokhzad
- Jayne Fenton Keane
- Anne 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
- Dame Mary Gilmour
- Madeline Gleason
- Hattie Gossett
- Angelina Weld Grimke
- Charlotte Forten Grimke
- Joy Harjo
- Carla Harryman
- Gwen Harwood
- Anne Hébert
- Lyn Hejinian
- Felicia Hemans
- Hilda Hilst
- Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), author of Battle Hymn of the Republic
- Fanny Howe
- Susan Howe
- Juana de Ibarbarou (1892-1979), Uruguayan poet
- Jean Ingelow
- Elizabeth Jennings
- Erica Jong
- Ingrid Jonker
- Jenny Joseph
- Sor Juana
- Tamai Kobayashi
- Joanne Kyger
L-R
- 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
- 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
- Amy Lowell
- Mina Loy
- Esther Mathews
- Marie de France
- Cecília Meireles
- Charlotte Mew
- Máire Mhac an tSaoi
- Josephine Miles
- 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), Brazilian poet, novelist, journalist and politician
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
- Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
- Lorine Niedecker
- Grace Fallow Norton
- Mona Oikawa
- Mary Devenport O'Neill
- Maggie O'Sullivan
- Mirabai Hindu mystical poet
- Ruth Padel
- Nettie Palmer
- Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960), the suffragette, 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), Argentine poet
- Sylvia Plath
- 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
- Stevie Smith
- Gertrude Stein
- Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938), Argentine poet
- May Swenson
- Sara Teasdale
- Celia Thaxter
- Elizabeth Thomas
- Veronica Forrest-Thomson
- Kitty Tsui
- Marina Tsvetaeva
- Janine Pommy Vega
- Renée Vivien French poet
- Diane Wakoski
- Rosmarie Waldrop
- Anne Waldman
- Alice Walker
- Catherine Walsh (born 1964)
- Hannah Weiner
- Phillis Wheatley
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Anna Wickham
- Judith Wright
- Lady Mary Wroth - prolific author of the Jacobean era
- Elinor Wylie
- Adela Zamudio (1854-1928), Bolivian poet
See also
External links
- FemBio - Notable Women International includes biographies of poets (http://www.fembio.org/default.shtml)