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Celebrating Women’s History Month

Poems, articles, podcasts, and blog posts that explore women’s history and women’s rights.

By The Editors

Women marching in the winter

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POEMS

- 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
- Poem about My Rights
June Jordan
- A Woman Speaks
Audre Lorde
- Phenomenal Woman
Maya Angelou
- Howl
Amy Newman
- Women Whose Lives are Food, Men Whose Lives are Money
Joyce Carol Oates
- Macha
Monica McClure
- Responding
Juliana Spahr
- To Be Walang Hiya
Barbara Jane Reyes
- from Raw Meditations on Money, 1. She Speaks: A School Teacher from South India
Meena Alexander
- The River of Girls
Tishani Doshi
- The Archaeologists
Julia Shipley
- Among Women
Marie Ponsot
- Bound for Hell
Marina Tsvetaeva
- Women in Labor
Mary Ruefle
- Poet as Housewife
Elisabeth Eybers
- Women
May Swenson
- Postfeminism
Brenda Shaughnessy
- Hip-Hop Ghazal
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

ARTICLES

- 100 Years of Poetry: “In the Middle of Major Men”
Liesl Olson
- Exchange: Meghan O'Rourke, J. Allyn Rosser & Eleanor Wilner on "Women's Poetry"
Exchange
- The Struggle to Write
Minnie Bruce Pratt
- Revealing all the Secrets
Nuria Sheehan
- Waiting for the Tide to Come In
Susan Aizenberg & Erin Belieu
- The Bell Jar at 40
Emily Gould
- Learning to Breathe under Water
Alicia Ostriker
- She Could Tell You Stories
Lucille Clifton interviewed by Hilary Holladay (Hilary Holladay)

POEM GUIDES

- Anne Bradstreet: “To My Dear and Loving Husband”
Emily Warn
- Emily Dickinson: “It was not death, for I stood up,”
Robin Ekiss
- Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard: “One morn I left him in his bed”
Hannah Brooks-Motl
- Nikky Finney: “The Afterbirth, 1931”
Kwame Dawes
- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea: “The Answer”
Ange Mlinko

ESSAYS ON POETIC THEORY

- The Poetics of Disobedience
Alice Notley
- Female Tradition as Feminist Innovation
Annie Finch

PODCASTS

- A Change of World documentary: Poetry and the Women's Movement
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- A Change of World, Episode 1: The Wilderness
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- A Change of World, Episode 2: Books that Broke Down Barriers
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- A Change of World, Episode 3: Shattering the Blue Velvet Chair
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- A Change of World, Episode 4 : A Place of Permission
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- A Change of World, Episode 5: Poetry Gives Birth
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- A Change of World, Episode 6: New Waves
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- The Women of the Avant-Garde
From Avant-Garde All the Time
- The Women of the Avant-Garde (part 2)
From Avant-Garde All the Time
- What's a Man Doing in a Feminist Poem?
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- “Becoming Anne Bradstreet”
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- Eileen Myles for President
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- An Essential American Poet
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- Battle of the Bards
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- History vs. the Past
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- Life Will Never Be the Same
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- Confessional Poetry Off the Shelf
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- June Jordan
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- How It Is
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- History's Lost and Found
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- Complete Original: Eleanor Ross Taylor
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- A Radical Poet's Radical Poet
From Poetry Off the Shelf
- The New Motherhood Poem
From Poetry Off the Shelf

ESSENTIAL AMERICAN POETS: ARCHIVAL RECORDINGS

- Adrienne Rich: Essential American Poets
From Essential American Poets
- Lucille Clifton: Essential American Poets
From Essential American Poets
- Mona Van Duyn: Essential American Poets
From Essential American Poets
- Denise Levertov: Essential American Poets
From Essential American Poets
- Sharon Olds: Essential American Poets
From Essential American Poets
- Anne Sexton: Essential American Poets
From Essential American Poets
- Linda Gregg: Essential American Poets
From Essential American Poets
- Maxine Kumin: Essential American Poets
From Essential American Poets
- Gwendolyn Brooks: Essential American Poets
From Essential American Poets
- Jean Valentine: Essential American Poets
From Essential American Poets

BLOG POSTS

- Margaret Rhee: Body Maps: A (digital/real) Asian American Feminist Poetics
Barbara Jane Reyes
- Women of Color and Body Politics
Barbara Jane Reyes
- MY FEMINIST ASPECT—A NON-SELF INTERVIEW IN BRIEF
Wanda Coleman
- Call and Response: The Gifts of Women Poets (Part 1)
Amy King
- Call and Response: The Gifts of Women Poets (Part 2)
Amy King
- 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
- What a New Feminist Consciousness Looked Like for Montréal
Harriet Staff
- ADFEMPO: Advancing Feminist Poetics & Activism
Tonya Foster
- Gender, publishing, and Poetry magazine
Christian Wiman