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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...