To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry is the first book to ...

Twenty-first-century poetry by women demonstrates a multiplicity of perspectives, connection and loss, and continuing revolutions across gender and genre. At the outset of the twenty-first century, ...

Nikki Giovanni was a one-of-a-kind writing talent who tackled everything from racism to love to life and death in her works.

American Women’s Poetry is a research and teaching collection and includes historical examples of books by and for women, artists’ books created by women and collections of poetry by American women.

So, imagine my delight at the chance to hear on November 14, not one but two Santa Barbara women Poets Laureate at the Blue ...

She has also written about other contemporary American women poets: an essay on Rita Dove is included in Women Poets of the Americas: Toward a Pan-American Gathering (Notre Dame, 1999), and a piece on ...

She was the first African-American woman to write a script that was made into a Hollywood movie, the first female poet to read a poem at a President's inauguration and the first female African ...

For a lone individual (and an African-American woman at that!) to be given the responsibility of choosing who would represent American poetry for the entire past century was unheard of.

Angelou, a poet and activist, was the first black woman ... a tribal chief and an actress - as part of the American Women Quarters programme. The move was hailed by the nation's first female ...