List of female poets

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

Before CE

1–500 CE

500–999 CE

11th–14th centuries

15th century

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th-century (date of birth unknown)

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

1800s

1810s

1820s

1830s

1840s

1850s

1860s

1870s

1880s

1890s

1900s

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1920s

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1930s

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1940s

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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
• Thoko Remigia Makhanya, South African activist and poet
• Trista Mateer, American visual poet
• Monica Ong, Asian-American visual poet
• Vaishnavi Pusapati, Physician writer and poet
• Hermana Ramarui, Palauan poet and educator

See also

• Poetry
• Poet
• List of feminist poets

References