List of feminist poets
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] This list focuses on poets who take explicitly feminist approaches to their poetry.
A–D
- Kathy Acker (1947–1997), American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright and essayist
- Maya Angelou (1928–2014), American author and poet
- Elvia Ardalani (born 1963), Mexican poet, writer and storyteller
- Margaret Atwood (born 1939), Canadian poet, novelist and critic
- Maryam Jafari Azarmani (born 1977), Iranian poet, Sonneteer, essayist, literary critic, translator
- Addie L. Ballou (1837–1916), American poet and suffragist
- Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), American modernist lesbian writer
- Aphra Behn (1640–1689), dramatist of the English Restoration and among first English professional female writers
- Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), American poet and short-story writer
- Eavan Boland (1944–2020), Irish poet
- Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659–1730), Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess
- Olga Broumas (born 1949), Greek poet living in the United States
- Lucille Clifton (1936–2010), American writer and educator
- Mary Collier (c. 1688–1762), English poet
- Jeni Couzyn (born 1942), Canadian poet and anthologist of South African extraction
- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961), American poet, novelist and memoirist known for Imagist poetry
- Diane Di Prima (1934–2020), American poet
- Zoraida Díaz (1881–1948), Panamanian poet, educator, and feminist
- Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), American poet
- Carol 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
E–K
- Muzi Epifani (1935–1984), Italian writer and poet
- Mary Eliza Fullerton (1868–1946), Australian feminist poet, short story writer, journalist and novelist
- Alice Fulton (born 1952), American author, poet
- Frances 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 scholar
- Judy Grahn (born 1940), American feminist, lesbian poet
- Barbara Guest (1920–2006), American poet, author
- Marilyn Hacker (born 1942), American poet, translator and critic
- Judith Hall (born 1951), American poet, literary editor, educational writer, essayist, illustrator and educator
- Jane Eaton Hamilton (born 1954), Canadian poet, fiction writer, photographer, and visual artist
- Gwen Harwood (1920–1995), Australian poet and librettist
- Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958), American/Canadian poet
- Lyn Hejinian (born 1941), American poet, essayist, translator and publisher
- Dorothy Hewett (1923–2002), Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist and playwright
- Susan Howe (born 1937), American poet, scholar, essayist and critic; closely associated with the Language poets
- Terri L. Jewell (1954–1995), American author, poet and Black lesbian activist
- Kiyémis (born 1993), French Afro-feminist and poet
- Carolyn Kizer (1925–2014), Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet; noted for her feminist poetry
L–R
- Sue Lenier (born 1957), English poet and playwright
- Anna Maria Lenngren (1754–1817), Swedish writer, poet, feminist, translator and salonnière
- Denise Levertov (1923–1997), British-born American poet
- Patricia Lockwood (born 1982), American poet and essayist
- Audre Lorde (1934–1992), Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist
- Mina Loy (1882–1966), artist, poet, playwright and novelist, Futurist
- Chris Mansell (born 1953), Australian poet and publisher
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950), American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist
- Gabriela 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 writer
- Barbara 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 activist
- Kishwar Naheed (born 1940), Urdu poet from Pakistan known for her pioneering feminist poetry
- Lorine 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 feminist
- Alicia Ostriker (born 1937), American poet and scholar writing Jewish feminist poetry
- Grace Paley (1922–2007), American-Jewish short story writer, poet, and political activist
- Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960), English suffragist, poet
- Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
- Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), American poet, novelist and short story writer
- Katha Pollitt (born 1949), American feminist poet, essayist and critic
- Qiu Jin (1875–1907), Chinese revolutionary, feminist and writer
- Rita Mae Reese (living), American poet, fiction writer, and publisher
- Fahmida Riaz (1946–2018), Urdu writer, poet, and feminist of Pakistan
- Adrienne Rich (1929–2012), American poet, essayist and feminist
- Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957), English novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer
- Lola Ridge (1873–1941), anarchist poet and editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications
- Ethel Rolt-Wheeler (1869–1958), English poet, author and journalist
- Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems
- Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980), American poet and political activist
S–Z
- 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, journalist
- Anne Sexton (1928–1974), American poet known for personal, confessional verse
- Parveen Shakir (1952–1994), Urdu poet, teacher and civil servant in Pakistan
- Jo Shapcott (born 1953), English poet, editor and lecturer
- Elena Shirman (1908–1942), Russian poet
- Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), British poet and critic, eldest of three literary Sitwells
- Stevie Smith (1902–1971), English poet and novelist
- Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of life in France
- Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938), Swiss-Argentine poet
- Lynn Strongin (born 1939), American poet
- May Swenson (1913–1989), American poet and playwright
- Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), American lyrical poet
- Ann Townsend (born 1962) American poet and essayist
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), Russian and Soviet poet
- Anne Waldman (born 1945), American poet
- Rosmarie Waldrop (born 1935), American poet, translator and publisher
- Alice Walker (born 1944), American author, poet, and activist
- Phyllis Webb (1927–2021), Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
- Nellie Wong (born 1934), Chinese-American feminist poet
- Merle Woo (born 1941), Asian-American teacher, poet and activist
- Judith Wright (1915–2000), Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights
- Elinor Wylie (1885–1928), American poet and novelist
- Halima Xudoyberdiyeva (1947–2018), Uzbek poet; People's Poet of Uzbekistan
- Mitsuye Yamada (born 1923), Japanese-American activist, feminist, essayist, poet, story writer, editor, and professor
- Esperanza Zambrano (1901-1992), Mexican poet of Modernismo movement
References
- The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature (1. publ. ed.). Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. 1997. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-313-29435-8.
- Feminist Theory Reader (3rd ed.). Routledge. 2013. p. 159. ISBN 978-1-135-07383-1.
- Wong, Sau-ling C.; Santa Ana, Jeffrey J. (Autumn 1999). "Gender and sexuality in Asian American literature". Signs. 25 (1): 171–226. ISSN 0097-9740. ProQuest 198646439.
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