In fact, recently released figures from the Nielsen BookScan showed that sales of poetry in the UK increased by 12% last year – with teenage girls and young women making up the majority of ...

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 poet, translator and editor was well aware of how difficult the situation of women writers was: their literary aspirations were not backed up by an adequate education, the society envisaged ...

What a jagged image we use for women who achieve greatly ... lives—especially in Thomas and Beulah, my third book of poetry, which deals with a solid lifelong marriage devoid of extraordinary ...

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.

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 ...

An impressionistic documentary about legendary poet Diane di Prima, the most famous female poet of the Beat Generation, di Prima was named Poet Laureate of San Francisco in 2009. "The Poetry Deal ...

Three female poets qualified to participate in earlier episodes — the first time women have qualified in the competition’s history. In addition to Jordanian female poet Roba Al Douekat and ...

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 ...