Product Description: When President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009, poets Carolyne Wright and Eugenia Toledo felt the need to hear from women about their workplace experiences ― not just pay and promotion inequity, sexual harassment, and intimidation ― but the increasing range of women's occupations and options in a globalized world...read more

Product Description: Hurricane Party is an original and rewarding work, a masterful follow-up to Big Muddy River of Stars, and a livewire, compelling contribution to American poetry. No other poet sounds like Pelegrin, and that's the sure sign of a writer at the top of her game.”Elton Glaser

Product Description: When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women is the first major collection of its kind in a generation. It features 97 of the most exciting poets in America including Kim Addonizio, Natasha Trethewey, Robin Becker, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Maxine Kumin, Naomi Shihab Nye, Claudia Emerson, Lynn Emanuel, Mary Oliver, Jane Mead, Mary Ruefle, Kay Ryan, and Pattiann Rogers...read more

Spans four thousand years and the world's major civilizations to anthologize verses by women ranging from Enheduanna, a second millennium B.C. Sumerian princess, to the medieval poets Marie de France and Florencia de Pinar, to noteworthy poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Product Description: Temba Tupu! is a one-of-a-kind anthology brimming with a cross-section of poetic styles that represent the creative genius of Africana women from the beginning of written records. Included are selections from Queen Hatshepsut, Makeda, Queen of Sheba, Sojourner Truth, Gladys Casely Hayford, Una Marson, matriarch of Jamaican women s poetry, and Noemia Da Sousa, a revolutionary poet from southern Africa, as well as poems from contemporary poets like the former United States Poet Laureate, Rita Dove, popular people s poet, Nikki Giovanni, Ghanaian poet and dramatist, Ama Ata Aidoo, Trinidadian poet, Grace Nichols, Nigerian poet, Taiwo Olaleye-Ornene, and Brazilian poet and scholar, Miriam Alves...read more

Product Description: The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry celebrates the unique spiritual life of women through a rich selection of poetry written over the past four thousand years, from thirty-six different languages and cultures. It ranges from verse by the first recorded poet, a Sumerian priestess named Enheduanna (circa 2,300 BCE), to Anne Sexton; from early Buddhist nuns to Emily Dickinson; from Hildegard of Bingen to Tess Gallagher...read more

An international group of woman poets raise their powerful collective voices to address issues of violence and conflict in the lives of women, from war to domestic abuse.

Product Description: Spanning the centuries from Sappho's Greece to modern South Africa, the voices of these women poets express themes of love, motherhood, injustice, loss, and racial and sexual oppression. The sequence of the poems moves from youth to old age, and they bear witness to the triumphs as well as the pain and frustration of women in many times and in many places...read more

Gathers poems and brief passages by Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Helen Keller, Christina Rossetti, and Freya Stark (view table of contents)

Product Description: This collection aims to meet the needs of the many English teachers who want to introduce their pupils to a range of women's poetry wider than the few accepted classics. The author draws on writing of the last 40 years to compile an anthology of 120 poems by more than 50 different authors...read more

Gathers poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Emily Bronte, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, and Gwendolyn Brooks

A collection of 150 poems from poets from around the world features poems about loss, sex, love, race, youth, motherhood, and other topics by Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Sappho, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, and others.

A collection of poems examining life through female eyes

Poems by women from many cultures deal with the experiences of learning a new language, living in a new culture, being forced to flee war or political repression, and longing for one's native land

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Arranges the poetic work of over three thousand five hundred years into historical and cultural traditions and gives a brief biographical note on each poet (view table of contents)

Remarkable poems by women from every continent and region of the world are translated for the American reader