List of female poets explained

This is a list of female poets with a Wikipedia page, listed by the period in which they were born.

11th–14th centuries

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19th-century (date of birth unknown)

Cornelia Laws St. John (died February 24, 1902), American poet and biographer

1900s

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1910s

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1920s

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1930s

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1940s

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1950s

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1960s

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1970s

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1980s

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1990s

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Current (date of birth unknown)

Elizabeth Acevedo, Dominican-American poet
Sandra Agard, British storyteller, poet and cultural historian
Star Black, American poet, photographer and artist
Hannah Drake, African-American poet
Beda Higgins, Anglo-Irish poet and writer
Kara Jackson, American poet and former National Youth Poet Laureate of the USA
Monica Ong, Asian-American visual poet

See also