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The May Swenson Poetry Award, sponsored by Utah State University Press, is a competitive prize granted annually to an outstanding collection of poetry in English. Open to published and unpublished writers, with no limitation on subject, the competition honors May Swenson as one of America's most vital and provocative poets of the twentieth century.
Ruth Pitter (1897–1992), English poet, first woman to receive Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, in 1955; ... May Swenson (1913–1989), American poet and playwright;
They include Writing Like a Woman (1983), which explores the poems of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, H.D., May Swenson and Adrienne Rich, and The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions (1994), which approaches the Torah with a midrashic sensibility. [10]
Rather: May Swenson, Isabella Gardner, & most close Adrienne Cecile Rich—who will soon be eclipsed by these with poems: I am eager, chafing, sure of my gift, wanting only to train & teach it—I’ll count the magazines and the money I break open with these eight poems from now on. We’ll see.
Historically, literature has been a male-dominated sphere, and any poetry written by a woman could be seen as feminist. Often, feminist poetry refers to that which was composed after the 1960s and the second wave of the feminist movement. [1] [2] This list focuses on poets who take explicitly feminist approaches to their poetry.
Frannie Lindsay is an American poet. She is author of three poetry collections, most recently, The Snow's Wife (Cavankerry Press, 2020). [1] Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the MacDowell and Millay Colonies, and Yaddo.
May Swenson – Another Animal; Mercedes de Acosta – Moods; Streets and Shadows; Archways of Life; Michael Field – Works and Days (love diary); Poems of Adoration; Michelle Tea – Rent Girl; Rose of No Man's Land; Passionate Mistake and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America; Monique Wittig – Women Warriors (a novel)
Mary Ann Swenson (née McDonald) was born in 1947 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She was raised and educated in Jackson, Mississippi, where she was active in Sunday school, church youth group, and choir at the Capitol Street Methodist Church. She married Jeffrey Joe Swenson of Elma, Washington in 1968.