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
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19th-century (date of birth unknown)
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Cornelia Laws St. John (died February 24, 1902), American poet and biographer
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Current (date of birth unknown)
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Elizabeth Acevedo
Elizabeth Acevedo is a Dominican-American poet and author. In September 2022, the Poetry Foundation named her the year's Young People’s Poet Laureate.
Acevedo is the author of the young adult novels ''The Poet X'', '' With the Fire on High'', ...
, Dominican-American poet
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Sandra Agard, British storyteller, poet and cultural historian
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Star Black
Star Black is a poet, photographer, and artist. She has authored seven collections of poetry and taught in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton and at The New School.
She was published in '' The Paris Review'', and has written three books o ...
, American poet, photographer and artist
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Hannah Drake, African-American poet
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Beda Higgins, Anglo-Irish poet and writer
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Kara Jackson, American poet and former
National Youth Poet Laureate
The National Youth Poet Laureate is a title held in the United States by a young person who demonstrates skill in the arts, particularly poetry and/or spoken word, is a strong leader, is committed to social justice, and is active in civic discours ...
of the USA
See also
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Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...
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Poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...
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List of feminist poets
References
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