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  2. Anamika (poet) - Wikipedia

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    Anamika (born 17 August 1961) is a contemporary Indian poet, social worker and novelist [1] writing in Hindi, and a critic writing in English. My Typewriter Is My Piano is her collection of poems translated into English. [2] She is known for her feminist poetry. [2]

  3. Gaha Sattasai - Wikipedia

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    It consists of 700 single-verse poems, divided into 7 chapters of 100 verses each. All the poems are couplets, and most are in the musical arya metre. [20] Many poems of the text include names of gods and goddesses in Hinduism, for allegorical comparison of a woman's feelings. [21]

  4. Meena Alexander - Wikipedia

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    Meena Alexander (17 February 1951 – 21 November 2018) was an Indian American poet, scholar, and writer.Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander later lived and worked in New York City, where she was a Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

  5. List of female poets - Wikipedia

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    Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621), among first Englishwomen to gain a literary reputation; Gaspara Stampa (1523–1554), Italian poet; Joana Vaz (c. 1500 – post–1570), Portuguese court poet and humanist; Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567–1573), earliest identified woman to publish secular poetry in English

  6. Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - Wikipedia

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    Through her different genres of work including children's stories, poems, and short stories, Mary Wilkins Freeman sought to demonstrate her values as a feminist. During the time which she was writing, she did this in nonconventional ways; for example, she diverged from making her female characters weak and in need of help which was a common ...

  7. Mahadevi Varma - Wikipedia

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    Her poetry, along with her work towards social upliftment and women's welfare, were depicted in her writings. These works, especially her anthology Deepshikha, [4] greatly influenced both readers and critics. [5] She developed a soft vocabulary in the Hindi poetry of Khadi Boli, which before her was considered possible only in Braj Bhasha. She ...

  8. List of feminist poets - Wikipedia

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    Mary Collier (c. 1688–1762), English poet; Jeni Couzyn (born 1942), Canadian poet and anthologist of South African extraction; 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 ...

  9. Lalla Rookh - Wikipedia

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    The name Lalla Rookh or Lala-Rukh (Persian: لاله رخ laleh rox or rukh) means "tulip-cheeked" and is an endearment frequently used in Persian poetry. [3] Lalla Rookh has also been translated as "rosy-cheeked"; [ 4 ] however, the first word derives from the Persian word for tulip, laleh , and a different word, laal , means rosy, or ruby . [ 5 ]