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Rosemary Daniell (born 1935), American poet and author, known as a second-wave feminist and for writing about the deep south; H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961), American poet, novelist and memoirist known for Imagist poetry; Diane Di Prima (1934–2020), American poet; Zoraida Díaz (1881–1948), Panamanian poet, educator, and feminist
Emily Brontë (1818–1848), English novelist and poet, best remembered for her novel Wuthering Heights; Frances Browne (1816–1887), Irish poet and novelist; Eliza Cook (1818–1889), English poet; Elizabeth Jessup Eames (1813–1856), American writer of prose and poetry; George Eliot (born Marian Evans, 1819–1880), English novelist and poet
When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (Autumn House Press, 2009) [9] Good Poems for Hard Times (Viking, 2005) [10] Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days (University of Iowa Press, 2010) The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007 (St. Martin's Griffin Press, 2007, ISBN 0-312-36942-5)
Eva Best (1851–1925) Lorraine Bethel; Helen Bevington (1906–2001) Frank Bidart (born 1939) Ambrose Bierce (1842–c. 1913) Linda Bierds (born 1945) David Biespiel (born 1964) Helen Louisa Bostwick Bird (1826–1907) Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) John Peale Bishop (1892–1944) Morris Bishop (1893–1973) Sherwin Bitsui (born 1975) Baxter ...
This was followed in 2013 by The Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition (2013), in which guest editor Robert Pinsky selected 100 poems from the series' history. A collection of Lehman's forewords was published together as a look at contemporary poetry called The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988–2014.
Mari Evans (July 16, 1919 [3] [1] – March 10, 2017) [4] was an African-American poet, writer, and dramatist [5] associated with the Black Arts Movement. [6] Evans received grants and awards including a lifetime achievement award from the Indianapolis Public Library Foundation.
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A prodigy as a child, Wheatley was the first black person to publish a book of poems in the American colony, and though her poems are sometimes thought of as expressing "meek submission," she is also what Camille Dungy describes as "a foremother," and a role model for black women poets as "part of the fabric" of American poetry. [21]