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The following is a partial list of performance poets This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Performance poetry has also been boosted considerably by the appearance of Def Jam—the hip-hop recording company helmed by Russell Simmons—on the scene. def jam has created a television show that showcases performance poets that runs on HBO, as well as a show of performance poets that ran on Broadway for almost a year and won a Tony Award.
Jayne Cortez (1936–2012), American poet and performance artist; Vilborg Dagbjartsdóttir (1930–2021), Icelandic poet; Kamala Das (1934–2009), Indian English poet and littérateur; Olga Xirinacs Díaz (born 1936), writer and piano teacher; Zuhur Dixon (1933–2021), Iraqi poet; Leila Djabali (born 1933), Algerian poet and intellectual
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Other anthologies created new canons of women's writing from the past, such as Black sister: poetry by black American women, 1746-1980 (1981) edited by Erlene Stetson; or Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940 (1987) edited by Paula Rabinowitz and Charlotte Nekola. Such anthologies "established solid ground for the ...
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.
Edith Sessions Tuffer, "Women Who Scribble," The Wichita (Kansas) Daily Eagle, September 25, 1890, image 6 A woman describes "their work and their troubles." The same article appeared in many other newspapers. "Characteristics of Woman Writers," New York Sun, quoted in The Argus, Rock Island, Illinois, 14 April 1893, image 6
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American poets. It includes poets that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Female poets from the United States .