List of feminist poets

A–D

• Kathy Acker, American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright and essayist
• Maya Angelou, American author and poet
• Elvia Ardalani, Mexican poet, writer and storyteller
• Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet, novelist and critic
• Maryam Jafari Azarmani, Iranian poet, Sonneteer, essayist, literary critic, translator
• Addie L. Ballou, American poet and suffragist
• Djuna Barnes, American modernist lesbian writer
• Aphra Behn, dramatist of the English Restoration and among first English professional female writers
• Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and short-story writer
• Eavan Boland, Irish poet
• Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess
• Olga Broumas, Greek poet living in the United States
• Lucille Clifton, American writer and educator
• Ellen Melicent Cobden, British writer, radical campaigner and suffragist
• Mary Collier, English poet
• Jeni Couzyn, Canadian poet and anthologist of South African extraction
• Rosemary Daniell, American poet and author, known as a second-wave feminist and for writing about the deep south
• H.D., American poet, novelist and memoirist known for Imagist poetry
• Diane Di Prima, American poet
• Zoraida Díaz, Panamanian poet, educator, and feminist
• Emily Dickinson, American poet
• Carol Ann Duffy, Scottish poet and playwright; first female and first Scottish Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
• Rachel Blau DuPlessis, American poet and essayist known as a feminist critic and scholar

E–K

• Muzi Epifani, Italian writer and poet
• Mary Eliza Fullerton, Australian feminist poet, short story writer, journalist and novelist
• Alice Fulton, American author, poet
• Frances Dana Barker Gage, American writer, poet, reformer, feminist and abolitionist
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist, author, poet and lecturer for social reform
• Hedwig Gorski, American poet, author, artist, dramatist, and scholar
• Judy Grahn, American feminist, lesbian poet
• Barbara Guest, American poet, author
• Marilyn Hacker, American poet, translator and critic
• Judith Hall, American poet, literary editor, educational writer, essayist, illustrator and educator
• Jane Eaton Hamilton, Canadian poet, fiction writer, photographer, and visual artist
• Gwen Harwood, Australian poet and librettist
• Allison Hedge Coke, American/Canadian poet
• Lyn Hejinian, American poet, essayist, translator and publisher
• Dorothy Hewett, Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist and playwright
• Susan Howe, American poet, scholar, essayist and critic; closely associated with the Language poets
• Terri L. Jewell, American author, poet and Black lesbian activist
• Kiyémis, French Afro-feminist and poet
• Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet; noted for her feminist poetry

L–R

• Sue Lenier, English poet and playwright
• Anna Maria Lenngren, Swedish writer, poet, feminist, translator and salonnière
• Denise Levertov, British-born American poet
• Patricia Lockwood, American poet and essayist
• Audre Lorde, Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist
• Mina Loy, artist, poet, playwright and novelist, Futurist
• Chris Mansell, Australian poet and publisher
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist
• Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet, educator and feminist; first Latin American to win Nobel Prize in Literature
• Marianne Moore, American Modernist poet and writer
• Barbara Mor, American feminist of the Goddess movement
• Robin Morgan, American poet, author, political theorist and activist
• Eileen Myles American poet and writer, Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and LGBT activist
• Kishwar Naheed, Urdu poet from Pakistan known for her pioneering feminist poetry
• Lorine Niedecker, American poet; only woman associated with Objectivist poets
• Barbara Noda, third generation Japanese American poet
• Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Swedish poet, feminist and salon hostess
• Alice Notley, American poet and feminist
• Alicia Ostriker, American poet and scholar writing Jewish feminist poetry
• Grace Paley, American-Jewish short story writer, poet, and political activist
• Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragist, poet
• Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
• Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist and short story writer
• Katha Pollitt, American feminist poet, essayist and critic
• Qiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary, feminist and writer
• Rita Mae Reese, American poet, fiction writer, and publisher
• Fahmida Riaz, Urdu writer, poet, and feminist of Pakistan
• Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist and feminist
• Dorothy Richardson, English novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer
• Lola Ridge, anarchist poet and editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications
• Ethel Rolt-Wheeler, English poet, author and journalist
• Christina Rossetti, English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems
• Muriel Rukeyser, American poet and political activist

S–Z

• Nandini Sahu, Indian poet writing in English
• Sonia Sanchez, African-American poet often associated with Black Arts Movement
• Sappho, Ancient Greek poet; one of the nine lyric poets
• Henriette Sauret, French feminist pacifist poet, writer, journalist
• Anne Sexton, American poet known for personal, confessional verse
• Parveen Shakir, Urdu poet, teacher and civil servant in Pakistan
• Jo Shapcott, English poet, editor and lecturer
• Elena Shirman, Russian poet
• Edith Sitwell, British poet and critic, eldest of three literary Sitwells
• Stevie Smith, English poet and novelist
• Gertrude Stein, American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of life in France
• Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentine poet
• Lynn Strongin, American poet
• May Swenson, American poet and playwright
• Sara Teasdale, American lyrical poet
• Ann Townsend American poet and essayist
• Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian and Soviet poet
• Anne Waldman, American poet
• Rosmarie Waldrop, American poet, translator and publisher
• Alice Walker, American author, poet, and activist
• Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
• Nellie Wong, Chinese-American feminist poet
• Merle Woo, Asian-American teacher, poet and activist
• Judith Wright, Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights
• Elinor Wylie, American poet and novelist
• Halima Xudoyberdiyeva, Uzbek poet; People's Poet of Uzbekistan
• Mitsuye Yamada, Japanese-American activist, feminist, essayist, poet, story writer, editor, and professor
• Esperanza Zambrano, Mexican poet of Modernismo movement