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Toi Derricotte (pronounced DARE-ah-cot) (born April 12, 1941) is an American poet.She is the author of six poetry collections and a literary memoir. She has won numerous literary awards, including the 2020 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry awarded by the Poetry Society of America, and the 2021 Wallace Stevens Award, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets.
Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver; September 8, 1934) [1] is an American poet, writer, and professor. She was a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and has written over a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books.
Cover of the first edition of Poems of Passion, 1883. Poems of Passion is a collection of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox that was published in 1883. [1] Despite the fact that the book's title "threatened to spark a scandal," eventually it "was embraced by thousands of perfectly respectable midwestern readers." [2]
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.
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.
The poems celebrate the strength, resilience, and determination of suffragists while critiquing the patriarchal society that oppresses women. "Suffrage Songs and Verses" serves as both a literary work and a rallying cry for the suffrage movement, capturing the spirit and passion of the activists who fought for women's enfranchisement.
Anoushka Sabnis (born January 27, 2007) is an Indian writer, poet and public speaker.She has published several books. She published her first book at the age of 10 using a self-publishing platform, [1] [2] and has since been active in advocating the benefits of reading and writing, especially for children.
Lucille Clifton (born Thelma Lucille Sayles, in Depew, New York) [6] grew up in Buffalo, New York, and graduated from Fosdick-Masten Park High School in 1953. [7] She attended Howard University with a scholarship from 1953 to 1955, leaving to study at the State University of New York at Fredonia (near Buffalo).