Poetry - Women Authors

An important new work of poetry from Alice Notley, winner of the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Alice Notley has become one of the most highly regarded figures in American poetry, a master of the visionary mode acclaimed for genre-bending book-length poems of great...

The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred social justice movements and inspired songs, turned hearts and informed generations about the reality of life--especially Black life--in America. One of the foremost African-American writers and activists of her generation, she has been hailed as a healer...

The final volume in Jehanne Dubrow's groundbreaking trilogy about the experience of being a modern military spouse, Civilians examines a significant moment of transformation in a military marriage: the shift from active-duty service to civilian life. After twenty years in the U.S. Navy, Dubrow's...

Filled with warmth, wit, and a dash of irreverence, Clumsy Beauty is a celebration of life in all its messiness. This exquisitely illustrated collection of bite-size poems from J. K. Kennedy invites you to hear the "I love you" in every little moment. An...

Coatlicue Girl is the long-anticipated bilingual collection from one of Xicana literature's most subversive voices. Griselda L. Muñoz navigates her own inner cosmology to bring forth stories and poems that speak of passion, survival, and perseverance of cultural identity.Author: Gris MuñozPublisher: Flowersong BooksPublished: 02/13/2020Pages:...

Cold Thief Place speaks of the experiences of an undocumented American, her parents who fled Communist China and found safety in fundamentalist Christianity, and how she tried to understand them and herself by way of confessional poems. This is a family story. It tells...

"[Cope] writes the sort of poems almost no one does any longer . . . She seems always to know what to say, and what to do, in dark moments." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book ReviewThis volume comprises the full poetic works...

Winner Gish Prize for Lifetime Achievement A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning the 4 decades of her literary career. Gathering highlights from all of Sonia Sanchez's poetry, this compilation is...

"One of the greatest American poets of her time."--New York TimesCollected Poems features Edna St. Vincent Millay's incisive and impassioned poetry and sonnets, as well as the poet's last volume, Mine the Harvest, compiled and published in 1956 by her sister Norma Millay. Alongside...

A revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical workAnd I who was walkingwith the earth at my waist, saw two snowy eaglesand a naked girl.The one was the otherand the girl was neither. -from "Qasida of the Dark Doves" Federico García Lorca was...

Condition is a vivid account of early motherhood during the isolation and global intensity of the COVID pandemic. Reynolds witnesses the impossible transformations of her home, her child, and herself while reckoning with a past that overlays the act of parenting. The book is...

In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears...

"To survive is to refuse / death, but how / to tell refusal from retreat?" In the 2025 Trio Award winning poetry collection Continental Drift, Mai-Linh Hong honors and explores the geography that made and continues to shape her ancestors' story, her own story,...

Debut best-selling title by nationally recognized poet Yesika Salgado.Author: Yesika SalgadoPublisher: Not a CultPublished: 03/01/2018Pages: 98Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.30dISBN: 9781945649134About the AuthorYesika Salgado is a Los Angeles based Salvadoran poet who writes about her family, her culture, her city,...

"Corazón Espinado" de María Iglesias es una obra extraordinaria que entrelaza poesía y prosa para narrar el amor perdido y el dolor que de ello emana. Con maestría y sensibilidad, la autora captura la intensidad de las emociones de una joven mientras procesa el...

"An astounding debut."--Adrienne Raphel, The New York Times Book Review A dazzling love story in poems about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undoneA woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the...

COVID Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco meditates on the extraordinary time of loss, isolation, and bizarre rituals of the Covid era and its aftermath."Yep, she's still got it. . . . Like the most inspiring religious services, 'Covid Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope...

mama, am I going to make it, is it going to be okaywill I lose my breasts, my hair, my eyelasheswill I lose my identity, femininity, my dignitywill I recognize myself in mirrors, in photos, in memorieswho will I become if I no longer...

"Crossing the Water, a collection of poems written just prior to those in Ariel, . . . is of immense importance in recording [Plath's] extraordinary development. One senses on every page a voice coming into its own, the chaos of a lifetime at last...

Snap your fingers, move your hips, step high, then low, then turn around. Keep the rhythm. It all matters. We are all keeping time and so are the trees, the waters, the earth, just a different kind of time than the Doomsday Clock. Rena...