Honestly, I do not know what possessed me to attempt to tackle this topic, but here it is: there is no essential difference between male and female poets. In fact, I would bet dollars to doughnuts [2] that in a blind taste test, it would be nearly impossible to accurately guess the gender of any given poet by the poem alone.*** The range of approaches and poetic concerns within each gender grouping are just too vast; in other words the category "women poets [3]" is so broad as to be nearly meaningless.
Okay for all that. What is important here is that I get to provide links to some of my favorite poets in the HCPL collection who happen to be the owners of two x chromosomes [15].
A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now [16] / edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone
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A Certain Attitude: Poems by Seven Texas Women [18] / edited by Laura B. Kennelly
All of the Above [19]/ Dorothy Barresi [ebook]
Ash [20] / Sharan Strange [ebook]
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos [21] / Anne Carson [22]
Classical Women Poets [23] / translated & introduced by Josephine Balmer.
The Collected Early Poems: 1950-1970 [24] / Adrienne Rich [25].
The Complete Poems: 1927-1979 [26] / Elizabeth Bishop [27]
The Complete Poems [28] / Marianne Moore [29]
[30]
The Complete Poetical Works [31] / Elizabeth Barrett Browning [32]
Connecting the Dots [33] / Maxine Kumin [34]
The Dream of the Unified Field [35] / Jorie Graham [36]
Elegy: Poems [37] / Mary Jo Bang
Evening Train [38] / Denise Levertov [39]
Half Way Down the Hall: New and Selected Poems [40]/ Rachel Hadas
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho [41] / translated by Anne Carson
Late Wife: Poems [42] / Claudia Emerson
Lucifer at the Starlite [43]/ Kim Addonizio [44]
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Monologue of a Dog: New Poems [46] / Wislawa Szymborska
No More Masks! An Anthology of Twentieth Century American Women Poets [47] / edited by Florence Howe
The Penguin Book of Women Poets [48] / edited by Carol Cosman, et al.
Poems: New and Selected 1957-1997 [49] / Wislawa Szymborska
Selected Poems [50] / H. D.
These Are Not Sweet Girls: Latin American Women Poets [51] / edited by Marjorie Angosín
Versed [52] / Rae Armantrout
Victorian Women Poets: A New Annotated Anthology [53] / edited by Virginia Blain
The Wild Iris [54] / Louise Glück [55].
The Works of Anne Bradstreet [56] /
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- Adrienne Rich [60]
- Anne Bradstreet [61]
- Anne Carson [62]
- archetype [63]
- battle of the sexes [64]
- chromosomes [65]
- Classical Women Poets [66]
- Claudia Emerson [67]
- Denise Levertov [68]
- Dorothy Barresi [69]
- doughnuts [70]
- earth mother [71]
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning [72]
- Elizabeth Bishop [73]
- gender [74]
- gender identity [75]
- girly-girls [76]
- H. D. [77]
- hate mail [78]
- Jorie Graham [79]
- JuneCleaver [80]
- Kim Addonizio [81]
- Latin American Women Poets [82]
- Louise Glück [83]
- manly men [84]
- Marianne Moore [85]
- Marilyn Monroe [86]
- Mary Jo Bang [87]
- Maxine Kumin [88]
- Poetry [89]
- Rachel Hadas [90]
- Rae Armantrout [91]
- Sappho [92]
- Sharan Strange [93]
- tangos [94]
- Victorian Women Poets [95]
- Wislawa Szymborska [96]
- women poets [97]
- Yin/Yang [98]
