Portrait of Marianne Moore by George Platt Lynes from the exhibit, “Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets” at the National Portrait Gallery, courtesy of the museum Historian and poet David Ward ...

More than 30 Minnesota women poets will read at Open Book on Saturday, celebrating publication of a new anthology to which they contributed, and Thom Tammaro, co-editor of “To Sing Along the Way,” can ...

Author offers guidance to women aged 45-90 to live boldly, embrace their unique feminine wisdom and fully celebrate this stage of life through poetry In "Poems for Women of a Certain Age," the women ...

On a frosty February morning in Kabul, Lima Aafshid’s face glows in the pale blue light of her smartphone. She is reciting the words of 13th century Afghan poet Jalaluddin Rumi. Speaking in Dari, her ...

Sometimes the thing that can be said in a thousand words is better said in 10 — as a poetry lover, that’s how I often feel, and I’m betting most (or all) of the feminist poets featured on the list ...

Decades after female poets of the ‘60s and ‘70s gained attention and acclaim, feminist poetry is having a moment again — particularly for women of color. The latest wave began to form before the last ...

So many women carry deep emotional scars — yawning wounds from childhood, an early love, and other injuries that feel like they happened yesterday (and maybe they did). Fortunately, there's a way to ...

Alright, so yeah. I am applying to get an MFA in poetry. What led me to this? Well, for one thing, when I look at the Valley Poetry women who I have written about, many of them have pursued an MFA. It ...

Two women have saved a war poet's work from being lost - twice over and more than 100 years apart. Only 24, Nowell Oxland died in World War One in 1915, nine days before one of his poems, about his ...

Amal Hussein and Hamdi Mohamed have a lot in common. Both were born in Kenya, where their parents had fled as refugees from Somalia’s civil war, and both came to Boston when they were just a few years ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...