In fact, recently released figures from the Nielsen BookScan showed that sales of poetry in the UK increased by 12% last year – with teenage girls and young women making up the majority of ...

In fact, you could almost say they didn’t exist. If one happened to be on par with a man, it was only in his shadow. The history of literature has either forgotten them or labelled them as scandalous… ...

She was the first African-American woman to write a script that was made into a Hollywood movie, the first female poet to read a poem at a President's inauguration and the first female African ...

American Women’s Poetry is a research and teaching collection and includes historical examples of books by and for women, artists’ books created by women and collections of poetry by American women.

Mejlak was one such person and, for some decades of the 21st century, she maintained the title of Malta’s first female poet. Mejlak was born on January 5, 1905. She was the second child among ...

Three female poets qualified to participate in earlier episodes — the first time women have qualified in the competition’s history. In addition to Jordanian female poet Roba Al Douekat and ...

Nine Syllables Press is a chapbook press created by Adrie Rose (AC ‘22) in partnership with the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College. We seek to address ongoing inequity by providing a new ...

This is especially true in the poems to Vishnu, which I study, where many male poets assume the female voice to express their longing for union with the divine beloved, conceived as male.