A-D

• Fleur Adcock
• Anna Akhmatova
• Ethel Anderson
• Maya Angelou
• Rae Armantrout
• Thea Astley
• Margaret Atwood
• Dorothy Auchterlonie
• Pam Ayres
• Joanna Baillie
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld
• Djuna Barnes
• Katharine Lee Bates
• Aphra Behn
• Gwendolyn B. Bennett
• Elizabeth Bishop
• Susanna Blamire
• Eavan Boland
• Anne Bradstreet
• Charlotte Brontë
• Emily Brontë
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• May Wedderburn Cannan
• Alice Cary
• Phoebe Cary
• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
• Chrystos
• Sandra Cisneros
• Sarah N. Cleghorn
• Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
• Wendy Cope
• Corinna
• Leona Czwartkowski
• H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) 1886-1961
• Tina Darragh
• Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)
• Emily Dickinson
• Diane Di Prima
• Maura Dooley
• Rita Dove
• Carol Ann Duffy
• Azza El Wakeel

E-K

• Parvin E'tesami
• Forough Farrokhzad
• Jayne Fenton Keane
• Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Alice Fulton
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) Her first book, In This Our World, was a book of poetry
• Dame Mary Gilmour
• Madeline Gleason
• Hattie Gossett
• Angelina Weld Grimke
• Charlotte Forten Grimke
• Joy Harjo
• Carla Harryman
• Gwen Harwood
• Lyn Hejinian
• Felicia Hemans
• Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), author of Battle Hymn of the Republic
• Fanny Howe
• Susan Howe
• Jean Ingelow
• Elizabeth Jennings
• Erica Jong
• Jenny Joseph
• Tamai Kobayashi
• Joanne Kyger

L-R

• Lalleshvari Kashmiri poet
• Aemilia Lanyer - first Englishwoman to publish a volume of original poems and to seek patronage
• Lucy Larcom 1824-1893, millgirl, frequent contributor to the Lowell Offering , published four books of poetry in her lifetime
• Evelyn Lau
• Emma Lazarus 1849-1887, best known for her poem The New Colossus (inscribed on the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World)
• Mary Leapor
• Denise Levertov
• Amy Lowell
• Mina Loy
• Esther Mathews
• Marie de France
• Charlotte Mew
• Máire Mhac an tSaoi
• Edna St Vincent Millay
• Lady Mary Wortley Montague
• Geraldine Monk
• Marianne Moore
• Barbara Moraff
• Hannah More
• Wendy Mulford
• Sarojini Naidu
• Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
• Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
• Lorine Niedecker
• Grace Fallow Norton
• Mona Oikawa
• Mary Devenport O'Neill
• Maggie O'Sullivan
• Mirabai Hindu mystical poet
• Ruth Padel
• Nettie Palmer
• Sylvia Pankhurst 1882-1960, the suffragette, wrote Writ on Cold Slate, poems about her prison experience, in 1922
• Dorothy Parker
• Katherine Phillips
• Ruth Pitter
• Christine de Pizan
• Sylvia Plath
• Dalia Rabikovich
• Elaine Randell
• Adrienne Rich
• Lola Ridge
• Denise Riley
• Christina Georgina Rossetti
• Muriel Rukeyser 1913-1980

S-Z

• Blanaid Salkeld
• Sappho
• Nina Serrano
• Anne Sexton
• Jo Shapcott
• Edith Sitwell
• Stevie Smith
• Gertrude Stein
• May Swenson
• Mary Sydney
• Sara Teasdale
• Celia Thaxter
• Elizabeth Thomas
• Veronica Forrest-Thomson
• Kitty Tsui
• Marina Tsvetaeva
• Janine Pommy Vega
• Renee Vivien French poet
• Diane Wakoski
• Rosmarie Waldrop
• Anne Waldman
• Alice Walker
• Catherine Walsh (born 1964)
• Hannah Weiner
• Phillis Wheatley
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Anna Wickham
• Judith Wright
• Lady Mary Wroth - prolific author of the Jacobean era
• Elinor Wylie

See also

• poetry
• poetess
• list of poets

External links

• FemBio - Notable Women International includes biographies of poets