women poets
Ladies writing verse
Women poets are female practitioners of poetry, distinguished as a category because the literary canon historically centered men.
The phrase reflects ongoing efforts to recognize and study women's contributions to poetry: an anthology of women poets, a course on nineteenth-century women poets.
The term can feel dated or limiting—many prefer simply "poets"—but remains useful for addressing historical exclusion.
- SapphoAncient Greek woman poet
- women's voicesSpeech from adult females
- breaking silenceEnding deliberate quiet
- authoressesFemale literary creators
- Victorian eraBritain under its longest-reigning queen
Virginia Woolf · Harlem Renaissance · confessional poetry · Maya Angelou · Romantic period · wild nights · Emily Dickinson · Haiku · Sonnet · female gaze · salon · letters · love letters · voice · feminine · muse · sisterhood · longing
- Women WritersJane Austen, Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, Anne Bronte
- women's poetryfemale poets, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, poetesses
- women's writingVirginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath
- Pashto Poetrymasnavi, folk poetry, classical poetry, classical forms
- German Women Writers
- Norwegian LiteratureHenrik Ibsen, A Dolls House, The Snowman, sagas, Nordic noir