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Ruth Padel (born 1946), English poet and non-fiction author on poetry and nature writing; Ánxeles Penas (born 1943), Spanish poet; Katha Pollitt (born 1949), American feminist poet, essayist and critic; Dina Posada (born 1946), Salvadoran poet; Thuraya Qabil (born 1943), Saudi Arabian poet and journalist
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.
[a] Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by a lyre. [8] Most of Sappho's poetry is now lost, and what is extant has survived only in fragmentary form, except for one complete poem: the "Ode to Aphrodite". As well as lyric poetry, ancient commentators claimed that Sappho wrote elegiac and iambic poetry.
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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 ...
[32] She was the first woman to win the poetry prize, though two women (Sara Teasdale in 1918 and Margaret Widdemer in 1919) won special prizes for their poetry prior to the establishment of the award. [33] In 1924, literary critic Harriet Monroe labeled Millay “the greatest woman poet since Sappho." [34]
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."
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 .
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