List of female poets
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[edit] A-B
- Kathy Acker
- Léonie Adams
- Fleur Adcock
- Delmira Agustini (1886–1914), Uruguayan poet
- Bella Akhmadulina
- Anna Akhmatova
- Anne-Marie Albiach
- Jordie Albiston
- Claribel Alegría
- Al-Khansa
- Ethel Anderson
- Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
- Maya Angelou
- Elvia Ardalani, Mexican poet, writer, and storyteller
- Rae Armantrout
- Thea Astley
- Margaret Atwood
- Dorothy Auchterlonie
- Ava, German (d. 1127)
- Pam Ayres
- Elisaveta Bagryana
- Joanna Baillie
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld
- Mary Barnard
- Djuna Barnes
- Katharine Lee Bates
- Aphra Behn
- Gwendolyn B. Bennett
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Susanna Blamire
- Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752-1783)
- Louise Bogan
- Eavan Boland
- Anne Lynch Botta (1815-1891)
- Karin Boye
- Anne Bradstreet
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Nicole Brossard
- Frances Browne (1816–1887)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
[edit] C-D
- May Wedderburn Cannan
- Alice Cary
- Phoebe Cary
- Rosario Castellanos
- Rosalía de Castro
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
- Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (1807-1834)
- Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
- Chrystos
- Sandra Cisneros
- Amy Clampitt
- Amy Key Clarke (1892-1980}
- Norma Cole
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
- Anne Compton b. 1947
- Ina Coolbrith (born Josephine Donna Smith) (1841-1928) first poet laureate of California, first public librarian in California
- Wendy Cope
- Corinna
- Dani Couture
- M. T. C. Cronin
- Cherubina de Gabriak
- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)
- Tina Darragh
- Kamala Das
- Regina Derieva
- Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)
- Emily Dickinson
- Blaga Dimitrova
- Diane Di Prima
- Rosemary Dobson
- Rita Dove
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis
[edit] E-K
- Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818-1877)
- Claudia Emerson
- Dorothe Engelbretsdotter
- Erinna
- Florbela Espanca
- Parvin E'tesami
- Forough Farrokhzad
- Jayne Fenton Keane
- Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Marie de France, 12th century
- Alice Fulton
- Frances Dana Barker Gage (1808-1884)
- Tess Gallagher (born 1943)
- Amy Gerstler
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
- Dame Mary Gilmour
- Madeline Gleason
- Louise Gluck
- Angelina Weld Grimke
- Charlotte Forten Grimke
- Marilyn Hacker
- Nathalie Handal
- Carla Harryman
- Gwen Harwood
- Mihri Hatun
- Anne Hébert
- Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Allison Hedge Coke
- Lyn Hejinian
- Felicia Hemans
- Dorothy Hewett
- Hilda Hilst
- Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), author of Battle Hymn of the Republic
- Fanny Howe
- Susan Howe
- Ada Verdun Howell (1902-1981)
- Constance Hunting (1925-2006)
- Frieda Hughes
- Hồ Xuân Hương
- Jean Ingelow
- Lisa Jarnot
- Taraneh Javanbakht
- Elizabeth Jennings
- Erica Jong
- Ingrid Jonker
- Jenny Joseph
- Sor Juana
- Sheema Kalbasi
- Antigone Kefala
- Al-Khansa, 7th century Islamic poet
- Vénus Khoury-Ghata
- Carolyn Kizer
- Joanne Kyger
[edit] L-M
- Aemilia Lanyer - first Englishwoman to publish a volume of original poems and to seek patronage
- Lucy Larcom (1824-1893), millgirl, frequent contributor to the Lowell Offering, published four books of poetry in her lifetime
- Evelyn Lau
- Emma Lazarus (1849-1887), best known for her poem The New Colossus (inscribed on the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World)
- Mary Leapor
- Anna Maria Lenngren
- Denise Levertov (October 23, 1923-December 20, 1997)
- Li Qingzhao
- Audre Lorde
- Amy Lowell
- Mina Loy
- Jennifer Maiden
- Sharanya Manivannan
- Ruth Manning-Sanders, children's author who won the Blindman International Poetry Prize in 1926 for The City
- Chris Mansell
- Daphne Marlatt
- Marie de France
- Phyllis McGinley
- Cecília Meireles
- Sophia de Mello Breyner
- Charlotte Mew
- Máire Mhac an tSaoi
- Josephine Miles
- Grazyna Miller
- Leslie Adrienne Miller
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Mirabai Hindu mystical poet
- Gabriela Mistral
- Susan Mitchell
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- Marianne Moore
- Barbara Moraff
- Hannah More
- Lisel Mueller (born 1924)
- Harryette Mullen
- Lale Müldür
[edit] N-R
- Constance Naden
- Sarojini Naidu
- Adalgisa Nery (1905-1980), Brazilian poet, novelist, journalist and politician
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Lorine Niedecker
- Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)
- Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht
- Alice Notley
- Nukata no Ōkimi (630-690)
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Sharon Olds
- Mary Devenport O'Neill
- Ono no Komachi (c. 825-900)
- Mary Oppen
- Maggie O'Sullivan
- Ruth Padel
- Shin Yu Pai
- Nettie Palmer
- Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960), suffragist, wrote Writ on Cold Slate, poems about her prison experience, in 1922
- Dorothy Parker
- Sophia Parnok (1885-1933), Russian Silver Age poet
- Marge Piercy
- Ruth Pitter
- Christine de Pizan
- Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972), Argentine poet
- Sylvia Plath
- Josefina Pla
- Katha Pollitt
- Marie Ponsot
- Dorothy Porter
- Pauline Prior-Pitt
- Amrita Pritam (1919-2005) India, Punjabi
- Dalia Rabikovich
- Jennifer Rankin
- Claudia Rankine
- Angela Rawlings
- Angela Readman
- Adrienne Rich
- Lola Ridge
- Laura Riding
- Denise Riley
- Lisa Robertson
- Christina Rossetti
- Anne Rouse
- Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
[edit] S-T
- Nelly Sachs
- Blanaid Salkeld
- Fiona Sampson
- Sappho
- Mamta Sagar
- Dipti Saravanamuttu
- Nina Serrano
- Anne Sexton
- Jo Shapcott
- Mary Sidney
- Edith Sitwell
- Myra Sklarew
- Charlotte Smith
- Patti Smith
- Stevie Smith
- Tracy K. Smith
- Gertrude Stein
- Susan Stewart
- Ruth Stone
- Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938), Argentine poet
- Sulpicia
- May Swenson
- Wislawa Szymborska
- Edith Södergran
- Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891-1968), Soviet Russian poet
- Sara Teasdale
- Thalia
- Celia Thaxter
- Elizabeth Thomas
- Natasha Trethewey
- Marina Tsvetaeva
- Chase Twichell
[edit] U-Z
- Diane Wakoski
- Rosmarie Waldrop
- Anne Waldman
- Alice Walker
- Ania Walwicz
- Hannah Weiner
- Phillis Wheatley
- Isabella Whitney
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Anna Wickham
- Elizabeth Willis
- Judith Wright
- C.D. Wright
- Lady Mary Wroth - prolific author of the Jacobean era
- Elinor Wylie
- Olga Xirinacs Díaz
- Lisa Zaran, American Poet
- Marya Zaturenska
- Fay Zwicky
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