Maya Angelou Elvia Ardalani Margaret Atwood Djuna Barnes Aphra Behn Elizabeth Bishop Eavan Boland Sophia Elisabet Brenner Karen Brodine Olga Broumas Lucille Clifton H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Emily Dickinson Diane Di Prima Rachel Blau DuPlessis Fehmida Riaz Kishwar Naheed Alice Fulton Charlotte Perkins Gilman (hey, told ya) Judy Grahn Barbara Guest Marilyn Hacker Allison Hedge Coke Lyn Hejinian Susan Howe Parveen Shakir Sue Lenier Anna Maria Lenngren Denise Levertov Audre Lorde Mina Loy Chris Mansell Edna St Vincent Millay Robin Morgan Marianne Moore Lorine Niedecker Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht Alicia Ostriker Sylvia Pankhurst Grace Paley Sylvia Plath Katha Pollitt Adrienne Rich Dorothy Richardson Ethel Rolt-Wheeler Christina Rossetti Muriel Rukeyser Sonia Sanchez Sappho Anne Sexton Jo Shapcott Edith Sitwell Stevie Smith Gertrude Stein May Swenson Sara Teasdale Marina Tsvetaeva Rosmarie Waldrop Anne Waldman Alice Walker Phyllis Webb Nellie Wong Merle Woo Judith Wright Elinor Wylie Mitsuye Yamada