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In "A Poem For Women in Rage", Lorde describes hatred being launched at her by a white woman, and the dilemma of whether or not to respond with violence. Through fury and rage, Lorde confronts the issues between white and Black women—fear and love—and how, "I am weeping to learn the name of those streets my feet have worn thin with running ...
According to Women in Peace, at a young age, Ayoola-Amale joined the peace movement. [2] She was a member of the Rotary Club, the Rotaract Club , the Girl Guides , and Women in Nigeria (WIN). A 2024 article on the Peace From Harmony website indicates that as a teenager, she was involved with Girls Guide groups focused on social justice issues ...
They adapted the imagery of the Symbolist poets along with the conventions of courtly love to describe love between women, also finding examples of heroic women in history and myth. [37] Sappho was an especially important influence and they studied Greek so as to read the surviving fragments of her poetry in the original.
Winifred Emma May (4 June 1907 – 28 August 1990) was a poet from the United Kingdom, best known for her work under the pen name Patience Strong.Her poems were usually short, simple and imbued with sentimentality, the beauty of nature and inner strength.
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women is a book of poems by Maya Angelou, published in 1995. [1] The poems in this short volume were published in Angelou's previous volumes of poetry. "Phenomenal Woman," "Still I Rise," and "Our Grandmothers" appeared in And Still I Rise (1978) and "Weekend Glory" appeared in Shaker, Why Don't You Sing ...
Everyone needs someone : poems of love and friendship. Old Tappan, N.J., Fleming H. Revell, 1978. In the vineyard of the Lord / Helen Steiner Rice, as told to Fred Bauer. Old Tappan, N.J., Fleming H. Revell, 1979. And the greatest of these is love : poems and promises / Helen Steiner Rice ; compiled by Donald T. Kauffman.
'Women Writing World War I in Poetry: The Long Angle Toward Peace'. Arts of War and Peace 3, no. 2 (10 July 2022). Montefiore, Janet. Arguments of Heart and Mind: Selected Essays 1977-2000. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2002. Montefiore, Janet. Feminism and Poetry: Language, Experience, Identity in Women's Writing. London ...
As poetry editor for The Nation, she was able to support and publish the work of feminist and other leftist activist poets. The Vietnam War was an especially important focus of her poetry, which often tried to weave together the personal and political, as in her poem "The Sorrow Dance", which speaks of her sister's death.