List of feminist poets

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This is a list of feminist poets. 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 poet who take explicitly feminist approaches to their poetry.

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  • Muzi Epifani (1935–1984), Italian writer and poet
  • Fehmida Riaz (1946–2018), Urdu writer, poet, and feminist of Pakistan
  • Mary Eliza Fullerton (1868–1946), Australian feminist poet, short story writer, journalist and novelist
  • Alice Fulton (born 1952), American author, poet
  • Frances Dana Barker Gage (1808–1884), American writer, poet, reformer, feminist and abolitionist
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), American sociologist, author, poet and lecturer for social reform
  • Hedwig Gorski (born 1949), American poet, author, artist, dramatist, and scholar
  • Judy Grahn (born 1940), American feminist, lesbian poet
  • Barbara Guest (1920–2006), American poet, author
  • Marilyn Hacker (born 1942), American poet, translator and critic
  • Jane Eaton Hamilton (born 1954), Canadian poet, fiction writer, photographer, visual artist
  • Gwen Harwood (1920–1995), Australian poet and librettist
  • Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958), American/Canadian poet
  • Lyn Hejinian (born 1941), American poet, essayist, translator and publisher
  • Dorothy Hewett (1923–2002), Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist and playwright
  • Susan Howe (born 1937), American poet, scholar, essayist and critic; closely associated with the Language poets
  • Kiyémis (born 1993), French Afro-feminist and poet
  • Maryam Jafari Azarmani (born 1977), Iranian poet, Sonneteer, essayist, literary critic, translator
  • Kishwar Naheed (born 1940), Urdu poet from Pakistan known for her pioneering feminist poetry
  • Carolyn Kizer (born 1925), Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet; noted for her feminist poetry
  • Terri L. Jewell (1954–1995), author, poet and Black lesbian activist

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References[]

  1. ^ The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature (1. publ. ed.). Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. 1997. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-313-29435-8.
  2. ^ Feminist Theory Reader (3rd ed.). Routledge. 2013. p. 159. ISBN 978-1-135-07383-1.
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