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List Of Feminist Poets
This is a list of feminist poets. Historically, literature has been a male-dominated sphere, and any List of female poets, poetry written by a woman could be seen as feminism, feminist. Often, feminist poetry refers to that which was composed after the 1960s and the second-wave feminism, second-wave of the feminist movement. This list focuses on poets who take explicitly feminist approaches to their poetry. A–D *Kathy Acker (1947–1997), American experimental literature, experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright and essayist *Maya Angelou (1928–2014), American author and poet *Elvia Ardalani (born 1963), Mexico, Mexican poet, writer and storyteller *Margaret Atwood (born 1939), Canadian poet, novelist and critic *Addie L. Ballou (1837–1916), American poet and suffragist *Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), American modernism, modernist lesbian writer *Aphra Behn (1640–1689), dramatist of the English Restoration and among first English professional female writers *Elizabeth Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Female Poets
This is a list of female poets with a Wikipedia page, listed by the period of time in which they were born. Before CE 1–500 CE 500–999 CE 11th–14th centuries In chronological order: 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th-century (date of birth unknown) * Cornelia Laws St. John (died February 24, 1902), American poet and biographer 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s In alphabetical order: 1910s In alphabetical order: 1920s In alphabetical order: 1930s In alphabetical order: 1940s In alphabetical order: 1950s In alphabetical order: 1960s In alphabetical order: 1970s In alphabetical order: 1980s In alphabetical order: 1990s In alphabetical order: Current (date of birth unknown) *Elizabeth Acevedo, Dominican-American poet * Sandra Agard, British storyteller, poet and cultural historian *Star Black, American poet, photographer and artist * Hanna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eavan Boland
Eavan Aisling Boland (24 September 1944 – 27 April 2020) was an Irish poet, author, and professor. She was a professor at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996. Her work deals with the Irish national identity, and the role of women in Irish history. A number of poems from Boland's poetry career are studied by Irish students who take the Leaving Certificate. She was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. Early life and education Boland's father, Frederick Boland, was a career diplomat and her mother, Frances Kelly, was a noted painter. She was born in Dublin in 1944. When she was six, Boland's father was appointed Irish Ambassador to the United Kingdom; the family followed him to London, where Boland had her first experiences of anti-Irish sentiment. Her dealing with this hostility strengthened Boland's identification with her Irish heritage. She spoke of this time in her poem, "An Irish Childhood in England: 1951". At 14, she returned to Dub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fehmida Riaz
Fahmida Riaz ( ur, ) (28 July 1946 – 21 November 2018) was a Urdu writer, poet and activist of Pakistan. She authored many books, of which some are ''Godaavari'', ''Khatt-e Marmuz'', and ''Khana e Aab O Gil'' the first translation in rhyme of the Masnavi of Jalaluddin Rumi from Persian into Urdu. The author of more than 15 books of fiction and poetry, she remained at the center of controversies. When ''Badan Dareeda'', her second collection of verse, appeared, she was accused of using erotic, sensual expressions and sometimes islamist undertone in her work. The themes prevalent in her verse were, until then, considered taboo for women writers. She also translated the works of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai and Shaikh Ayaz from Sindhi to Urdu. Fleeing General Zia-ul Haq's religious tyranny, Riaz sought refuge in India and spent seven years there. The poems from her collection ''Apna Jurm Sabit Hae'' reflect her homeland's experience under the dictatorship of General Zia-ul-Haq. By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muzi Epifani
Maria Luisa Gabriella Epifani, better known as Muzi Epifani (March 18, 1935 – February 12, 1984), was an Italian writer and poet. Biography Muzi Epifani was born in Benghazi, Libya. She studied literature and philosophy at the Heidelberg University and the University of Rome La Sapienza, where she obtained a degree in aesthetics under the supervision of Emilio Garroni. She was particularly influenced by the Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and the anthropological thought of Ernesto de Martino, whose missions she worked on in Lucania and Salento. During her studies at La Sapienza, she met Alex Duran (to whom she dedicated her novel ''Pazzi & creature''), Gabriele Giannantoni, Enzo Siciliano, and Franco Voltaggio. Epifani was one of the first Italian writers to develop a distinctive style of female writings alongside Natalia Ginzburg, Luce d'Eramo, Dacia Maraini, Biancamaria FrabottaGabriella Sobrino and Angiola Sacripante. She was a very attentive reader of English f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Rachel Blau DuPlessis (born December 14, 1941) is an American poet and essayist, known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist and contemporary poetry. Her work has been widely anthologized. Early life DuPlessis was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1941 to Joseph L. and Eleanor Blau; her father was a professor, and her mother was a librarian. She received her BA from Barnard College in 1963, and her MA and PhD from Columbia University in 1964 and 1970 respectively. Her dissertation project was titled ''The Endless Poem: Paterson of William Carlos Williams and The Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound''.for more info see: Paterson ; William Carlos Williams ; The Pisan Cantos ; & Ezra Pound Career Teaching DuPlessis taught literature and creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1974 to 2011; she has been professor emerita since 2011. In 2012, she was a Distinguished Visitor at University of Auckland. DuPlessis has also taugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poet Laureate Of The United Kingdom
The British Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom, currently on the advice of the prime minister. The role does not entail any specific duties, but there is an expectation that the holder will write verse for significant national occasions. The origins of the laureateship date back to 1616 when a pension was provided to Ben Jonson, but the first official holder of the position was John Dryden, appointed in 1668 by Charles II. On the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, who held the post between November 1850 and October 1892, there was a break of four years as a mark of respect; Tennyson's laureate poems "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade" were particularly cherished by the Victorian public. Three poets, Thomas Gray, Samuel Rogers and Walter Scott, turned down the laureateship. The holder of the position as at October 2022 is Simon Armitage who succeeded Carol Ann Duffy in May 2019. Backgr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Ann Duffy
Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, resigning in 2019. She was the first female poet, the first Scottish-born poet and the first openly gay poet to hold the Poet Laureate position. Her collections include ''Standing Female Nude'' (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; ''Selling Manhattan'' (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; ''Mean Time'' (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and ''Rapture'' (2005), which won the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence in accessible language. Early life Carol Ann Duffy was born to a Roman Catholic family in the Gorbals, considered a poor part of Glasgow. She was the daughter of Mary (née Black) and Frank Duffy, an electrical fitter. Her mother's parents were Irish, and her father had Irish grandparents. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Di Prima
Diane di Prima (August 6, 1934October 25, 2020) was an American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Her magnum opus is widely considered to be ''Loba'', a collection of poems first published in 1978 then extended in 1998. Early life and education Di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 6, 1934. She was a second generation American of Italian descent. Her father Francis was a lawyer, and her mother Emma (née Mallozzi) was a teacher. Her maternal grandfather, Domenico Mallozzi, was an activist and associated with anarchists Carlo Tresca and Emma Goldman. Di Prima changed her last name from DiPrima to di Prima because she believed it better reflected her Italian ancestry. She attended academically elite Hunter College High School where she became part of a small group of friends including classmate Audre Lorde who formed a sort of Dead Poets Society calling themselves “the Branded.” They cut cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, into a prominent family with strong ties to its community. After studying at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she briefly attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's home in Amherst. Evidence suggests that Dickinson lived much of her life in isolation. Considered an eccentric by locals, she developed a penchant for white clothing and was known for her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, to even leave her bedroom. Dickinson never married, and most friendships between her and others depended entirely upon correspondence. While Dickinson was a prolific writer, her only publications during her lifetime were 10 of her nearly 1,800 poems, and one letter. The poems published the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imagist
Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. It is considered to be the first organized literary modernism, modernist literary movement in the English language. Imagism is sometimes viewed as "a succession of creative moments" rather than a continuous or sustained period of development. The French academic René Taupin remarked that "it is more accurate to consider Imagism not as a doctrine, nor even as a poetic school, but as the association of a few poets who were for a certain time in agreement on a small number of important principles".Taupin, René (1929). ''L'Influence du symbolism francais sur la poesie Americaine (de 1910 a 1920)''. Paris: Champion. Translation (1985) by William Pratt and Anne Rich. New York: AMS. The Imagists rejected the sentiment and discursiveness typical of Romantic poetry, Romantic and Victorian literature#Poetry, Victorian poetry. In contrast to the contemporary G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeni Couzyn
Jeni Couzyn (born 1942) is a feminist poet and anthologist of South African extraction who lives and works in Canada and the United Kingdom. Her best known collection is titled '' Life by Drowning: Selected Poems'' (1985), which includes an earlier sequence ''A Time to Be Born'' (1981) that chronicles her pregnancy and the birth of her daughter. Biography Couzyn was born in South Africa and educated at the University of Natal. She emigrated to Britain in 1966 and established herself as a freelance writer. She became a Canadian citizen in 1975 and the following year was appointed writer-in-residence at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Since then she has divided her time between England, Canada, and South Africa. Work Poetry Couzyn's first collection was titled ''Flying'' (1970). Later collections include ''Christmas in Africa'' (1975), ''A Time to be Born'' (1981), ''Life by Drowning: Selected poems'' (1985), and ''That's It'' (1993).Stringer p. 145 ''A Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Collier
Mary Collier (c. 1688 – 1762) was an English poet, perhaps best known for ''The Woman's Labour'', a poem described by one commentator as a "plebeian female georgic that is also a protofeminist polemic." Life Little is known of Collier's early life other than what she wrote in the "remarks on the author's life drawn by herself" which prefaced her ''Poems on Several Occasions'' (1762). She was from Midhurst or Lodsworth,Mary Collier " Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Accessed 25 August 2022. West Sussex, born to poor parents, and educated at home. She worked as a washer-woman, brewer, and at other various jobs. In the 1720s she moved to in search of employment. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
