In her poem "The Mirror," Sylvia Plath portrays the complexity of the struggle of the imposter, the struggle to be oneself.
She does not post anything on social media, except everything. Poets often use irony to criticise as well as mock their subject matter. So you get the sense that this is a confessional poem about an ...
Among the other women recognized at the ceremony for the Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of Women of Apollo was Vivian Ayers, ...
She compiled 70 such verses into the book, titled Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science (2022). “I’m very glad to ...
Sometimes we all need a cathartic cry. If that’s you today, then give these beautiful and moving poems, selected by women including Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Elena Ferrante ...
We had met to talk about her new poetry collection, “Woman Without Shame,” just out from Knopf. Though it’s been twenty-eight years since she’s published a book of poems, she’s never ...
Actress Ashley Judd read a poem by 19-year-old Nina Donovan from her home state of Tennessee. “I am a nasty woman,” the poem began. “Not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in Cheeto ...
A Moncton writer is working to bring poetry into the lives of incarcerated women in New Brunswick. For the past two years, Kayla Geitzler has offered a six-week poetry course twice a year to ...
A Moncton writer is working to bring poetry into the lives of incarcerated women in New Brunswick. For the past two years, Kayla Geitzler has offered a six-week poetry course twice a year to women at ...
A film inspired by the story of a young Ainu woman who translated into Japanese an epic poem passed down orally among the indigenous people of Hokkaido will soon have a wide domestic release. The ...