A-D Fleur Adcock Maya Angelou Rae Armantrout Margaret Atwood Pam Ayres Joanna Baillie Anna Laetitia Barbauld Djuna Barnes Katharine Lee Bates Aphra Behn Gwendolyn B. Bennett Elizabeth Bishop Eavan Boland Anne Bradstreet Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Gwendolyn Brooks Elizabeth Barrett Browning Mary Wedderburn Cannan Alice Cary Phoebe Cary Chrystos Sandra Cisneros Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Wendy Cope Corinna H.D (Hilda Doolittle) 1886-1961 Tina Darragh Babette Deutsch (1895-1982) Emily Dickinson Diane Di Prima Carol Ann Duffy E-K Jayne Fenton Keane Penelope Fitzgerald Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) Her first book, In This Our World, was a book of poetry Dame Mary Gilmour Madeline Gleason Hattie Gossett Angelina Weld Grimke Charlotte Forten Grimke Joy Harjo Carla Harryman Lyn Hejinian Felicia Hemans Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), author of Battle Hymn of the Republic Fanny Howe Susan Howe Erica Jong Jenny Joseph Tamai Kobayashi Joanne Kyger L-R Lucy Larcom 1824-1893, millgirl, frequent contributor to the Lowell Offering, published four books of poetry in her lifetime Evelyn Lau Emma Lazarus 1849-1887, best known for her poem The New Colossus (inscribed on the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World) Denise Levertov Amy Lowell Mina Loy Máire Mhac an tSaoi Edna St Vincent Millay Geraldine Monk Marianne Moore Barbara Moraff Wendy Mulford Sarojini Naidu Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Lorine Niedecker Mona Oikawa Mary Devenport O'Neill Maggie O'Sullivan Ruth Padel Nettie Palmer Sylvia Pankhurst 1882-1960, the suffragette, wrote Writ on Cold Slate, poems about her prison experience, in 1922 Dorothy Parker Ruth Pitter Sylvia Plath Elaine Randell Adrienne Rich Lola Ridge Denise Riley Christina Georgina Rossetti S-Z Blanaid Salkeld Sappho Anne Sexton Jo Shapcott Edith Sitwell Stevie Smith Gertrude Stein May Swenson Sara Teasdale Veronica Forrest-Thomson Kitty Tsui Janine Pommy Vega Diane Wakoski Rosmarie Waldrop Anne Waldman Alice Walker Hannah Weiner Phillis Wheatley Ella Wheeler Wilcox Judith Wright Elinor Wylie See also poetry, poetess, list of poets