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Anne Cochran Wilkinson (September 21, 1910 – May 10, 1961) [1] was a Canadian poet [2] and writer. She was part of the modernist movement in Canadian poetry in the 1940s and 1950s, one of only a few prominent women poets of the time, along with Dorothy Livesay and P. K. Page.
Winifred Emma May (4 June 1907 – 28 August 1990) was a poet from the United Kingdom, best known for her work under the pen name Patience Strong.Her poems were usually short, simple and imbued with sentimentality, the beauty of nature and inner strength.
Pennie was one of five Scots commissioned to write a poem for a local Christmas campaign by Lidl about the Daft Days. [12] A recitation of Robert Burns' Rantin’ Rovin’ Robin was shared by the Scottish Poetry Library , [ 13 ] and she performed to over 1,200 people for the University of St Andrews' online Global Burns Night [ 14 ] and at a ...
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. [1] [2] This list focuses on poets who take explicitly feminist approaches to their poetry.
Brown gained prominence after videos of her performing original poems, one exploring the topic of self-love and another about female sexuality, went viral. [3]At age 19, Brown self-published a collection of poetry titled Graffiti (and other poems), which was a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards.
Naomi Long Madgett (July 5, 1923 – November 5, 2020) was an American poet and publisher. Originally a teacher, she later found fame with her award-winning poems and was also the founder and senior editor of Lotus Press, established in 1972, a publisher of poetry books by black poets.
Sleep is a composition for a cappella choir by Eric Whitacre, with lyrics by Charles Anthony Silvestri. He composed it in 2000, setting a poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. When the lyrics were found still under copyright, Whitacre enlisted Silvestri to write new lyrics to the existing music.
All You Who Sleep Tonight, ISBN 978-0394585161, is a 1990 collection of poems by Vikram Seth. British composer Jonathan Dove set eight of the quatrains and five other poems to music for Nuala Willis in a 1996 song cycle of the same name. [1] The collection is grouped into five sections: