Today, poetry is being challenged and subverted by young and achingly feminist voices, here to light a fire in our souls. I'm so glad I gave poetry a chance when I did.

Both poetry and feminism, emerging at points of crisis, seek to transform the world by altering the very forms through which our culture apprehends, expresses, and knows itself.

Feminism is the name of a unique battle. I write this with a momentous verdict just behind me. Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, has been convicted of murder and manslaughter ...

This Powerful Poem About Feminism and Motherhood Will Give You Chills. By Kelsey Garcia. Updated on Aug 28, 2016 at 1:00 PM ...

The first time I read Adrienne Rich was in 1979, a high school essay on "Storm Warnings," an old-fashioned extended metaphor in one of those anthologies English teachers love to assign.

Kaur’s sparse, wrenching poems cover huge themes – love, feminism, national identity, race, heartbreak and body image – with a weight and wisdom belying her 24 years.

Senegalese author and feminist Mariama Bâ is known for her French-language novels “So Long a Letter” and “Scarlet Song.” She became, before her death in 1981, one of the 20th century’s most ...

Juliana Spahr is the author of several books of poetry and criticism including, most recently, Well Then There Now and That Winter the Wolf Came.She is co-editor, with Stephanie Young, of A Megaphone: ...

Ellery Akers is the author of “Swerve: Poems on Environmentalism, Feminism and Resistance,” from Blue Light Press, published earlier this year. Illustration by R.O. Blechman.