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

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 ...

The book on which she collaborated with two fellow feminists drew global attention to the repression of women under their ...

Despite more women becoming involved in Burns clubs in recent years, the top table at Burns suppers still tends to be ...

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.

Mejlak was one such person and, for some decades of the 21st century, she maintained the title of Malta’s first female poet. Mejlak was born on January 5, 1905. She was the second child among ...

Through her poetry, Sarojini Naidu celebrated the beauty of her homeland and vividly reflected on themes such as patriotism, ...

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.

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 ...