List of feminist poets

A–D

• Kathy Acker, American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer
• Maya Angelou, American author and poet
• Elvia Ardalani, Mexican poet, writer, and storyteller
• Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist and environmental activist
• Addie L. Ballou, American poet and suffragist
• Djuna Barnes, American modernist lesbian writer
• Aphra Behn, dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers
• Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and short-story writer
• Eavan Boland, Irish poet
• Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess
• Olga Broumas, Greek poet, living in the United States
• Lucille Clifton, American writer and educator
• Mary Collier, English poet
• Jeni Couzyn, Canadian poet and anthologist of South African extraction
• H.D. , American poet, novelist and memoirist; known for her Imagist poetry
• Emily Dickinson, American poet
• Diane Di Prima, American poet
• Carol Ann Duffy, Scottish poet and playwright; first female and first Scottish Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
• Rachel Blau DuPlessis, American poet and essayist, known as a feminist critic and scholar

  E–K

• Muzi Epifani, Italian writer and poet
• Fehmida Riaz, Urdu writer, poet, and feminist of Pakistan
• Mary Eliza Fullerton, Australian feminist poet, short story writer, journalist and novelist
• Alice Fulton, American author, poet
• Frances Dana Barker Gage, American writer, poet, reformer, feminist and abolitionist
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist, author, poet and lecturer for social reform
• Hedwig Gorski, American poet, author, artist, dramatist, and scholar
• Judy Grahn, American feminist, lesbian poet
• Barbara Guest, American poet, author
• Marilyn Hacker, American poet, translator and critic
• Jane Eaton Hamilton, Canadian poet, fiction writer, photographer, visual artist
• Gwen Harwood, Australian poet and librettist
• Allison Hedge Coke, American/Canadian poet
• Lyn Hejinian, American poet, essayist, translator and publisher
• Dorothy Hewett, Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist and playwright
• Susan Howe, American poet, scholar, essayist and critic; closely associated with the Language poets
• Maryam Jafari Azarmani, Iranian poet, Sonneteer, essayist, literary critic, translator
• Kishwar Naheed, Urdu poet from Pakistan known for her pioneering feminist poetry
• Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet; noted for her feminist poetry

  L–R

• Sue Lenier, English poet and playwright
• Anna Maria Lenngren, Swedish writer, poet, feminist, translator and salonist
• Denise Levertov, British-born American poet
• Patricia Lockwood, American poet and essayist
• Audre Lorde, Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist
• Mina Loy, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, Futurist, actress, Christian Scientist, designer of lamps, and bohemian
• Chris Mansell, Australian poet and publisher
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist
• Gabriela Mistral , Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist; first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Marianne Moore, American Modernist poet and writer
• Barbara Mor, American Feminist of the Goddess movement
• Robin Morgan, American poet, author, political theorist and activist, journalist, lecturer, and former child actor
• Eileen Myles American poet and writer, Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and LGBT activist
• Lorine Niedecker, American poet; only woman associated with the Objectivist poets
• Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Swedish poet, feminist and salon hostess
• Alice Notley, American poet and feminist
• Alicia Ostriker, American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry
• Grace Paley, American-Jewish short story writer, poet, and political activist
• Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragist, poet
• Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
• Parveen Shakir, Urdu poet, teacher and a civil servant of the Government of Pakistan
• Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist and short story writer
• Katha Pollitt, American feminist poet, essayist and critic
• Qiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary, feminist and writer
• Rita Mae Reese, American poet, fiction writer, and publisher
• Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist and feminist
• Dorothy Richardson, English novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer
• Lola Ridge, anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications
• Ethel Rolt-Wheeler, English poet, author and journalist
• Christina Rossetti, English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems
• Muriel Rukeyser, American poet and political activist

  S–Z

• Nandini Sahu, Indian poet who writes in English
• Sonia Sanchez, African American poet most often associated with the Black Arts Movement
• Sappho, Ancient Greek poet; one of the nine lyric poets
• Anne Sexton, American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse
• Jo Shapcott, English poet, editor and lecturer
• Elena Shirman, Russian poet
• Edith Sitwell, British poet and critic, eldest of the three literary Sitwells
• Stevie Smith, English poet and novelist
• Gertrude Stein, American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France
• Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentine poet
• May Swenson, American poet and playwright
• Sara Teasdale, American lyrical poet
• Ann Townsend American poet and essayist
• Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian and Soviet poet
• Anne Waldman, American poet
• Rosmarie Waldrop, American poet, translator and publisher
• Alice Walker, American author, poet, and activist
• Phyllis Webb, Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
• Nellie Wong, Chinese-American feminist poet
• Merle Woo, Asian American teacher, poet and activist
• Judith Wright, Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights
• Elinor Wylie, American poet and novelist
• Halima Xudoyberdiyeva, Uzbek poet; People's Poet of Uzbekistan
• Mitsuye Yamada, Japanese American activist, feminist, essayist, poet, story writer, editor, and professor