Research Guides: Women's Success Resources: Women Poets

Women Poets

The following are collections of poems written by women or books about women poets, although it is only a small sample. For help finding more poetry, please see our Literature Research Guide or use the Library Help resources in this guide.

An American Sunrise: Poems (Print Book) by Joy Harjo
Publication Date: 2019
A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land.
Collected Black Women's Poetry (Print Book) by Joan R. Sherman (Editor)
Publication Date: 1988
These four volumes collect the poetic works of eleven African-American women writing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Print Book) by Maya Angelou
Publication Date: 2009
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.
Collected Poems of Audre Lorde (Print Book) by Audre Lorde
Publication Date: 2000
A complete collection―over 300 poems―from one of this country's most influential poets.
Dream of a Common Language (Print Book) by Adrienne Rich
Publication Date: 1978
The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for everybody—language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this. —Boston Evening Globe
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Print Book) by Warsan Shire
Publication Date: 2011
Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet and writer who is based in London. Born in 1988, she is an artist and activist who uses her work to document narratives of journey and trauma.
Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath (Print Book) by Sylvia Plath
Publication Date: 2008
Brings together a collection of all Plath's mature poetry, published and unpublished, together with a large selection of her juvenile works.
World's Wife: Poems (Print Book) by Carol Ann Duffy
Publication Date: 2000
Stunningly original and haunting, the voices of Mrs. Midas, Queen Kong, and Frau Freud, to say nothing of the Devil's Wife herself, startle us with their wit, imagination, and incisiveness in this collection of poems written from the perspectives of the wives, sisters, or girlfris of famous—and infamous—male personages. Carol Ann Duffy is a master at drawing on myth and history, then subverting them in a vivid and surprising way to create poems that have the pull of the past and the crack of the contemporary.
Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters (Print Book) by Anne Sexton
Publication Date: 1992
An expression of this extraordinary poet's life story in her own words. The letters—brilliant, lyrical, caustic, passionate, angry—are a consistently revealing index to her quixotic and exuberant personality.
Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (Print Book) by Gwendolyn Brooks
Publication Date: 2005
Discover the most enduring works of legendary poet Gwendolyn Brooks—the first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize—in one collectible volume.

Finding More

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