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Fleur Adcock

Delmira Agustini ( 1886 - 1914 ), Uruguayan poet

Bella Akhmadulina

Anna Akhmatova

Ethel Anderson

Sophia De Mello Breyner Andresen

Maya Angelou

Rae Armantrout

Thea Astley

Margaret Atwood

Dorothy Auchterlonie

Pam Ayres

Joanna Baillie

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Djuna Barnes

Katharine Lee Bates

Aphra Behn

Gwendolyn B. Bennett

Elizabeth Bishop

Susanna Blamire

Eavan Boland

Anne Bradstreet

Charlotte Brontë

Emily Brontë

Gwendolyn Brooks

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

C-D

May Wedderburn Cannan

Alice Cary

Phoebe Cary

Rosario Castellanos

Rosalía De Castro

Margaret Cavendish , Duchess of Newcastle

Cherubina De Gabriak

Chrystos

Sandra Cisneros

Sarah N. Cleghorn

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Wendy Cope

Corinna

Yvonne Cullen

Leona Czwartkowski

H.D. ( Hilda Doolittle ) ( 1886 - 1961 )

Tina Darragh

Olena Kaltiyak Davis

Babette Deutsch ( 1895 - 1982 )

Emily Dickinson

Diane Di Prima

Maura Dooley

Rita Dove

Carol Ann Duffy

Azza El Wakeel

E-K

Florbela Espanca

Parvin E'tesami

Forough Farrokhzad

Jayne Fenton Keane

Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess Of Winchilsea

Penelope Fitzgerald

Alice Fulton

Charlotte Perkins Gilman ( 1860 - 1935 ) Her first book, ''In This Our World,'' was a book of poetry

Dame Mary Gilmour

Madeline Gleason

Hattie Gossett

Angelina Weld Grimke

Charlotte Forten Grimke

Christine Hamm

Joy Harjo

Carla Harryman

Gwen Harwood

Anne Hébert

Lyn Hejinian

Felicia Hemans

Hilda Hilst

Julia Ward Howe ( 1819 - 1910 ), author of ''Battle Hymn of the Republic''

Fanny Howe

Susan Howe

Ada Verdun Howell ( 1902 - 1981 )

Juana De Ibarbarou ( 1892 - 1979 ), Uruguayan poet

Jean Ingelow

Elizabeth Jennings

Erica Jong

Ingrid Jonker

Jenny Joseph

Sor Juana

Tamai Kobayashi

Joanne Kyger

L-M

Leona Guthrie poet, author of "A Child's Rain," and a photography and teacher

Lalleshvari Kashmir i poet

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

Newoka LaShelle - poetess, author ''Ode Poet Valley'', and spoken word artist

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

Denise Levertov

Anne Lok (alternate sp. Lock or Locke, First published sonnet sequence in English, ''Meditation of a Penitent Sinner'' in 1560)

Amy Lowell

Mina Loy

Esther Mathews

Marie De France

Cecília Meireles

Charlotte Mew

Máire Mhac An TSaoi

Josephine Miles

Grazyna Miller

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Gabriela Mistral

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Geraldine Monk

Marianne Moore

Barbara Moraff

Hannah More

Wendy Mulford

N-R

Sarojini Naidu

Adalgisa Nery ( 1905 - 1980 ), Brazilian poet, novelist, journalist and politician

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Lorine Niedecker

Grace Fallow Norton

Mona Oikawa

Mary Devenport O'Neill

Maggie O'Sullivan

Mirabai Hindu mystical poet

Ruth Padel

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

Katherine Phillips

Ruth Pitter

Christine De Pizan

Alejandra Pizarnik ( 1936 - 1972 ), Argentine poet

Sylvia Plath

Amrita Pritam ( 1919 - 2005 ) India , Punjabi

Dalia Rabikovich

Elaine Randell

Adrienne Rich

Lola Ridge

Denise Riley

Christina Rossetti

Muriel Rukeyser ( 1913 - 1980 )

S-Z

Blanaid Salkeld

Sappho

Nina Serrano

Anne Sexton

Jo Shapcott

Mary Sidney

Edith Sitwell

Myra Sklarew

Stevie Smith

Gertrude Stein

Alfonsina Storni ( 1892 - 1938 ), Argentine poet

May Swenson

Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya ( 1891 - 1968 ), Soviet Russian poet

Sara Teasdale

Celia Thaxter

Elizabeth Thomas

Veronica Forrest-Thomson

Kitty Tsui

Marina Tsvetaeva

Janine Pommy Vega

Renée Vivien French poet

Diane Wakoski

Rosmarie Waldrop

Anne Waldman

Alice Walker

Catherine Walsh (born 1964 )

Hannah Weiner

Phillis Wheatley

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Shabnam Sharma anmol ratan kavyakunj--- hindi poet

Anna Wickham

Judith Wright

Lady Mary Wroth - prolific author of the Jacobean era

Elinor Wylie

Olga Xirinacs Díaz

Adela Zamudio ( 1854 - 1928 ), Bolivian poet

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Poetry

Poetess

List Of Poets

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