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 ...

There's no better way to get inspired and impassioned than by reading the words of trailblazing feminist poets who have bared their souls through poetry. This April, we celebrate these inspirational, ...

It’s not that Women of Resistance isn’t an excellent cross-section of work by and about the intersectional experience of contemporary womanhood; it’s that the intersectional experience of contemporary ...

During a poetry slam, such as the Feminist Poetry Night held at The World Famous on March 23, the raw passion and oftentimes pain in the speaker’s words often refers to themes such as race, feminism ...

In Trickster Feminism, Anne Waldman continues her lifelong project of speaking to power through poetry. Waldman has written through the post-2016 protests, marches and resistance, amid losses to the ...

Anne Waldman’s newest poetry collection reads like a spellbook — a mix of prose, verse, illustration and photography, woven together like the instructions to a ritual. But the incantatory poetry of ...

Alfonsina Storni, an early 20th century feminist whose arduous life ended in suicide, is remembered as one of Argentina's foremost modern poets -- but she is far from a household name outside the ...

Looking back on 2018, we can all agree that the highs have been historic and the lows have been debilitating. Despite the tumultuous events of the year, one constant emerged: Women refused to back ...

Poet Adrienne Rich, whose socially conscious verse influenced a generation of feminist, gay rights and anti-war activists, has died. She was 82.Rich died Tuesday at her Santa Cruz home from ...

Poetry and comics mix in the upcoming Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Poetry Anthology. Published by A Wave Blue World, Embodied pairs contemporary poets with top Cis-female, trans, and ...

Just 22 and working as a file clerk on Wall Street to support her poetry habit, Diane di Prima turned heads when she mailed in several of her works to City Lights, the legendary San Francisco ...