The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

This is especially true in the poems to Vishnu, which I study, where many male poets assume the female voice to express their longing for union with the divine beloved, conceived as male.

American Women’s Poetry is a research and teaching collection and includes historical examples of books by and for women, artists’ books created by women and collections of poetry by American women.

If one happened to be on par with a man, it was only in his shadow. The history of literature has either forgotten them or labelled them as scandalous… How did women poets cope in a world of ...

We seek to address ongoing inequity by providing a new platform for systematically excluded voices, including but not limited to women, BIPOC, and trans/LGBTQIA++ poets. 9SP is currently the only ...

She was the first African-American woman to write a script that was made into a Hollywood movie, the first female poet to read a poem at a President's inauguration and the first female African ...