This is a list of feminist poets. Historically, literature has been a male-dominated sphere, and any poetry written by a woman could be seen as feminist. Often, feminist poetry refers to that which was composed after the 1960s and the second-wave of the feminist movement. This list focuses on poets who take explicitly feminist approaches to their poetry. A–D Kathy Acker (1947–1997), American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright and essayist Maya Angelou (1928–2014), American author and poet Elvia Ardalani (born 1963), Mexican poet, writer and storyteller Margaret Atwood (born 1939), Canadian poet, novelist and critic Addie L. Ballou (1837–1916), American poet and suffragist Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), American modernist lesbian writer Aphra Behn (1640–1689), dramatist of the English Restoration and among first English professional female writers Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), American poet and short-story writer Eavan Boland (1944–2020), Irish poet Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659–1730), Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess Olga Broumas (born 1949), Greek poet living in the United States Lucille Clifton (1936–2010), American writer and educator Mary Collier (c. 1688–1762), English poet Jeni Couzyn (born 1942), Canadian poet and anthologist of South African extraction H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961), American poet, novelist and memoirist known for Imagist poetry Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), American poet Diane Di Prima (1934–2020), American poet Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955), Scottish poet and playwright; first female and first Scottish Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom Rachel Blau DuPlessis (born 1941), American poet and essayist known as a feminist critic and scholar E–K Muzi Epifani (1935–1984), Italian writer and poet Fehmida Riaz (1946–2018), Urdu writer, poet, and feminist of Pakistan Mary Eliza Fullerton (1868–1946), Australian feminist poet, short story writer, journalist and novelist Alice Fulton (born 1952), American author, poet Frances Dana Barker Gage (1808–1884), American writer, poet, reformer, feminist and abolitionist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), American sociologist, author, poet and lecturer for social reform Hedwig Gorski (born 1949), American poet, author, artist, dramatist, and scholar Judy Grahn (born 1940), American feminist, lesbian poet Barbara Guest (1920–2006), American poet, author Marilyn Hacker (born 1942), American poet, translator and critic Judith Hall (born 1951), American poet, literary editor, educational writer, essayist, illustrator and educator Jane Eaton Hamilton (born 1954), Canadian poet, fiction writer, photographer, visual artist Gwen Harwood (1920–1995), Australian poet and librettist Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958), American/Canadian poet Lyn Hejinian (born 1941), American poet, essayist, translator and publisher Dorothy Hewett (1923–2002), Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist