Decades after female poets of the '60s and '70s gained attention and acclaim, feminist poetry is having a moment again -- particularly for women of color. The latest wave began to form before the last ...

As a debut poet of 2015, Robin Beth Schaer has me totally excited to see what she’s going to give us next. Her poetry is a kaleidoscope of almost-electric imagery, with undertones of the past, present ...

Daljit Nagra selects Letters to a Young Woman Poet featuring: Gillian Clarke, Penelope Shuttle and Grace Nichols. From 2022.

German-born philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said that the limits of our language are the limits of our world. Concrete poetry, a transnational movement that materialized in the 1950s, ...

The Greenwich Branch of the National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW) held a celebratory book launch party on Monday night at the Tomes Higgins House for their first published book of poetry, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a frosty February morning in Kabul, Lima Aafshid’s face glows in the pale blue light of her smartphone. She is reciting the ...

For the first time since the pandemic began, the Black Women Rise Poetry Collective will be taking the stage to share poetry live and in person. The Lincoln Theatre will present the Black Women Rise ...

When my neighbor, Kristen Sneddon, invited me to read poetry at her Mayoral Campaign Kick-off, I did not hesitate to say Yes. I remember when she canvassed the neighborhood during her 2017 City ...

Four Greenwich women recently channeled the spirits of some of history's greatest women poets in "Sisters Across the Centuries," a dramatic reading of verse from English and American writers from the ...

Long before Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo movement, poets like McKayla Robbin, Rupi Kaur and Yrsa Daley-Ward were writing fierce and empowering poems about the female experience, including about ...

In the months since Donald Trump has become president, more and more people have become inspired to join the Resistance. Bustle's 31 Days of Reading Resistance takes a look at the role of literature ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. A remarkable history of women’s poetry in Yiddish was recently published by Joanna Lisek, a scholar of Polish literature. The book is ...