Celebrating Women’s History Month
Poems, articles, podcasts, and blog posts that explore women’s history and women’s rights.
BY The Editors
Pro Femina
Carolyn Kizer
Planetarium
Adrienne Rich
Sadie and Maud
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Applicant
Sylvia Plath
won’t you celebrate with me
Lucille Clifton
They shut me up in Prose – (445)
Emily Dickinson
Legacies
Nikki Giovanni
- June Jordan
A Woman Speaks
Audre Lorde
Phenomenal Woman
Maya Angelou
- Amy Newman
Women Whose Lives are Food, Men Whose Lives are Money
Joyce Carol Oates
Macha
Monica McClure
Responding
Juliana Spahr
- Barbara Jane Reyes
The River of Girls
Tishani Doshi
- Julia Shipley
- Marie Ponsot
- Marina Tsvetaeva
- Mary Ruefle
- Elisabeth Eybers
Women
May Swenson
Postfeminism
Brenda Shaughnessy
- Patricia Smith
My mother’s body
Marge Piercy
To The Indifferent Women
Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
A Double Standard
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Interview
Dorothy Parker
- Meghan O’Rourke
The Struggle to Write
Minnie Bruce Pratt
Revealing all the Secrets
Nuria Sheehan
Waiting for the Tide to Come In
Susan Aizenberg
The Bell Jar at 40
Emily Gould
Learning to Breathe under Water
Alicia Ostriker
She Could Tell You Stories
Hilary Holladay
Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard: “One morn I left him in his bed”
Hannah Brooks-Motl
Nikky Finney: “The Afterbirth, 1931”
Kwame Dawes
The Poetics of Disobedience
Alice Notley
Female Tradition as Feminist Innovation
Annie Finch
Women of Color and Body Politics
Barbara Jane Reyes
MY FEMINIST ASPECT—A NON-SELF INTERVIEW IN BRIEF
Wanda Coleman
Women Poets & Mentorship
Annie Finch
Gender & Poetry (Part 1): 'Why Don't More Women Do Blog-Oriented Writing?'
Craig Santos Perez
Gender, (Race), & Poetry (Part 2): Numbers & Unnumbered Trouble
Craig Santos Perez
ADFEMPO: Advancing Feminist Poetics & Activism
Tonya Foster
Gender, publishing, and Poetry magazine
Christian Wiman