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E–K. Muzi Epifani (1935–1984), Italian writer and poet. 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.
Feminist poetry is inspired by, promotes, or elaborates on feminist principles and ideas. [1] It might be written with the conscious aim of expressing feminist principles, although sometimes it is identified as feminist by critics in a later era. [1] Some writers are thought to express feminist ideas even if the writer was not an active member ...
Adrienne Cecile Rich (/ ˈ æ d r i ə n / AD-ree-ən; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist.She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", [1] [2] and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse". [3]
978-0995716223. Your Silence Will Not Protect You is a 2017 posthumous collection of essays, speeches, and poems by African American author and poet Audre Lorde. It is the first time a British publisher collected Lorde's work into one volume. [1][2] The collection focuses on key themes such as: shifting language into action, silence as a form ...
Alicia Suskin Ostriker (born November 11, 1937 [1]) is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry. [2][3] She was called "America's most fiercely honest poet" by Progressive. [1] Additionally, she was one of the first women poets in America to write and publish poems discussing the topic of motherhood. [4]
Judy Grahn (born July 28, 1940) is an American poet and author. Inspired by her experiences of disenfranchisement as a butch lesbian, she became a feminist poet, highly-regarded in underground circles before achieving public fame. A major influence in her work is Metaformic Theory, tracing the roots of modern culture back to ancient menstrual ...
Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, writer, activist, journalist, lecturer and former child actor. Since the early 1960s, she has been a key radical feminist member of the American Women's Movement, and a leader in the international feminist movement. Her 1970 anthology Sisterhood Is Powerful was cited by the New York ...
Carolyn Ashley Kizer (December 10, 1925 – October 9, 2014) was an American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985. According to an article at the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, "Kizer reach [ed] into mythology in poems like Semele Recycled; into politics, into ...