I’d been conditioned to believe that all women should want both of those things and be quietly apologetic if we failed to ...

Navamalati’s eleventh collection of poems, I’d Once Erased Those Margins, is a thought-provoking exploration of the quiet ...

Actress Ashley Judd read a poem by 19-year-old Nina Donovan from her home state of Tennessee. “I am a nasty woman,” the poem began. “Not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in Cheeto ...

Where to read this sonnet: Poetry Foundation. 6. Sonnet 20: “A woman’s face with Nature's own hand painted” (1609) Sonnet 20 is a poem that speaks of the intersection between gender and ...

Sometimes we all need a cathartic cry. If that’s you today, then give these beautiful and moving poems, selected by women including Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Elena Ferrante ...

While the Taliban claims that it is acting on Afghan culture, by banning women’s access to poetry it is acting completely ...

Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada photo A Maui woman last week became the first ‘Oiwi (Native Hawaiian) poet to win the annual National Poetry Series ... and the strength and tenderness I learned from ...

MARTINEZ — A Hayward man was arrested by New York police just minutes after being sentenced to 364 days in jail for taking and burning a woman’s ... Husary read a poem aloud in court the ...

MARTINEZ — A Hayward man was arrested by New York police just minutes after being sentenced to 364 days in jail for taking and burning a woman’s ... Husary read a poem aloud in court the ...

Once upon a time, many years ago, a young woman pressed her senior prom corsage in a book of Shakespearean love poems. She placed the book on her dressing table next to a framed photo of her with ...