List of female poets

This is a list of female poets with a Wikipedia page, listed by the period in which they were born.

Before CE

1–500 CE

500–999 CE

11th–14th centuries

15th century

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th-century (date of birth unknown)

Cornelia Laws St. John, American poet and biographer
1800s

1810s

1820s

1830s

1840s

1850s

1860s

1870s

1880s

1890s

1900s

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1910s

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1920s

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1930s

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1940s

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1950s

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1960s

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1970s

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1980s

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1990s

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Current (date of birth unknown)

Elizabeth Acevedo, Dominican-American poet
Sandra Agard, British storyteller, poet and cultural historian
Star Black, American poet, photographer and artist
Hannah Drake, African-American poet
Beda Higgins, Anglo-Irish poet and writer
Kara Jackson, American poet and former National Youth Poet Laureate of the USA
Trista Mateer, American visual poet
Monica Ong, Asian-American visual poet
Vaishnavi Pusapati, Physician writer and poet
Hermana Ramarui, Palauan poet and educator