Poetry - Women Authors

(On Un-)Becoming is a collection of stories, reflections, forgivenesses and offerings rooted in conversations and conflicts with FreeQuency's mother, chosen family & other selves. The anti disciplinary project liberates the concept of "transitioning" from the realm of Westernized notions of gender and expands exploresexplodes...

Susan Briante, award-winning poet and chronicler of globalization, The Great Recession, and the militarization of daily life, returns with 13 Questions for the Next Economy. This visionary collection, from the author of the Poetry Foundation's Pegasus prize-winning Defacing the Monument, weaves together selections from...

Reflections on race, class, violence, segregation, and the hidden histories that shape our divided urban landscapes.Author: Eve L. EwingPublisher: Haymarket BooksPublished: 06/11/2019Pages: 88Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.80h x 7.90w x 0.30dISBN: 9781608465989About the AuthorDr. Eve L. Ewing is a sociologist of education and a...

After loosing her mother, Aarti Patil began writing as a way of mourning. "20th" chronicles the loss, love, and grief experienced by the author as she learns about herself and her mother in her first 3 years of healing.Author: Avery Deering Frank,Aarti Uday PatilPublisher:...

The debut poetry collection from Lyndsay Rush (aka @maryoliversdrunkcousin) is a humorous and joyful celebration of big feelings, tender truths, and hard-won wisdom, for fans of Maggie Smith, Kate Baer, and Kate Kennedy.At long last, a book of poetry for people who didn't even...

In ghost stories and family history, this lyrical memoir explores mercy as resistance to generational violence In this luminous memoir-in-poems, Serena Chopra explores the complexities of mercy in an immigrant family haunted by generational violence. Drawing connections between the brutalized prairie beneath suburban lawns...

Joan M. White's debut is a poetic exploration of the seasons-not only the natural cycles of spring, summer, fall, and winter, but also the profoundly human seasons of life. Poems here are tender, honest, and quietly powerful, drawing inspiration from nature, humanity, and spirituality....

A piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender, race, and violence from a sensational new talentIn her arresting collection, urgently relevant for our times, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon confronts the histories of sexual violence against women, focusing in particular on Korean so-called "comfort women,"...

The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issues that touch our national consciousness, including race and gender, social justice, protest,...

The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issues that touch our national consciousness, including race and gender, social justice, protest,...

2021 Oklahoma Book Award Winner and Colorado Book Award Winner"Linda Hogan... speaks to us the way a trusted friend might, inviting you to take warmth by the hearth. Her verses teach us how to live with dignity in a world bent on destruction and...

"[A] vulnerable collection about facing the good, the bad and the ugly of our humanity with grace and curiosity."--USA Today (New Must-Read Poetry) "This is a book that will make you feel simultaneously alive and less alone."--Hanif Abdurraqib, New York Times bestselling author of...

In A Little Feral, Maria Giesbrecht delivers a debut collection that navigates faith, family, and personal resurrection through a voice at once wild, intimate, and quietly rebellious. Written in the aftermath of leaving a conservative Mennonite upbringing, these poems chart a parallel journey of...

From strangers to friends to family to strangers. Rinse and repeat. A Love Letter To People Who Hate Me is a chronological collection of poetry uncovering the truths of broken friendships. Valeria Abelli explores friendship breakups in a way that makes you heal from...

Selima Hill's twenty-second collection A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus presents ten sequences of short poems, prose poems and short pieces on relationships and doings between people, animals and the world at large. Self-portrait with a Bucket: On being an artist's model. The...

A Muslim Woman's Diary is a collection of thoughts, reminders and advice in the form of quotes from a Muslima to all her sisters across the world. The book is divided into four fundamental themes - haya, nafs, sabr and obedience. The aim of...

A life-long commitment to social evolution - and, occasionally, revolution - animates the poems in Jo-Ann Mort's debut collection, A Precise Chaos. Moving from Mostar to Oaxaca, Paris to Taormina, Mort's peripatetic poems reflect her experiences as a trade union activist, a political organizer,...

A Red Knock-Knocking like a Heart chronicles a mother's harrowing journey through infant loss and a disastrous hospital birth, while also exploring the joyful complexities of raising a neurodivergent child. Using image and sound derived from the beauty of the natural world, Kate Gaskin's...

Michelle Alexander's A Stone's Throw from C r a y takes up and is moved by radical Black creativity. To be thrown here unfolds an experience of human connection, struggle, and transformation within and outside institutionalized and Afro-Caribbean contexts. The poems skip across surfaces...

Instant New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith returns with a new collection of poems on the sometimes-blurry distinction between mind and body, and how the self shifts and moves through time and space. The title of Maggie Smith's new collection comes...