On our contest entry form we ask poets to list 2-3 Indispensable Women Poets. What an amazing resource this is creating for us!
Here’s the list of names submitted as of December 20th:
| Adrienne Rich |
| Akiko Yosano |
| Allison Townsend |
| Anna Akhmatova |
| Anne Finch |
| Annie Dillard |
| Aracelis Girmay |
| Audre Lorde |
| Beckian Fritz Goldberg |
| Bette Lynch Husted |
| Brenda Shaugnessy |
| Cathy Colman |
| Cecilia Woloch |
| Connie Willis |
| Dahlia Ravikovitch |
| Daisy Fried |
| Denise Duhamel |
| Eavan Boland |
| Elizabeth Bishop |
| Ellen Bass |
| Emily Dickinson |
| Gjertrud Schnackenberg |
| Glenna Luschei |
| Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Heather McHugh |
| Helen Klein Ross |
| Holly Day |
| Jane Hirschfield |
| Jane Kenyon |
| Joan Colby |
| Judy Rowe Michaels |
| Kay Ryan |
| Kim Addonizio |
| Liesl Mueller |
| Linda Gregg |
| Linda Hogan |
| Linda Pastan |
| Louise Erdrich |
| Louise Glück |
| Lucille Clifton |
| Lucy Tapahonso |
| Margaret Atwood |
| Marian Boyer |
| Marie Howe |
| Marilyn Hacker |
| Marsha de la O |
| Mary Oliver |
| Maxine Kumin |
| May Sarton |
| May Swenson |
| Maya Angelou |
| Muriel Rukeyser |
| Naomi Shihab Nye |
| Natasha Trethewey |
| Nellie Wong |
| Nikki Finney |
| Paisley Rekdal |
| Patricia Caspers Ross |
| Patricia Fargnoli |
| Patricia Smith |
| Pattiann Rogers |
| Quan Barry |
| Rachel Bluwstein |
| Renee Ashley |
| Rita Dove |
| Ruth Stone |
| Sandra Cisneros |
| Sappho |
| Sharon Olds |
| Sonia Sanchez |
| Sylvia Plath |
| Tiffany Midge |
| Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Wislawa Szymborska |
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