Women's History Month @ Taft: Fiction and Literature

6 Early American Women Writers We Should Know More About 

From Literary Ladies Guide: An Archive Dedicated to Classic Women Authors and Their Work

by Nava Atlas, March 20, 2019

In the American colonies or early days of the Republic, for a woman to dare enter public discourse was a radical act of rebellion. To write and be published at a time when women had few legal or economic rights was just short of miraculous. Here’s an introduction to six of the most prominent early American women writers, all of whom deserve to be rediscovered and read.

From the Academy of American Poets

Women's Poetry Month

March is Women’s History Month, a time for us to celebrate the lives and accomplishments of extraordinary, influential women. In particular, we remember the women poets who have helped shape American poetry—innovative poets including Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton, Adrienne Rich, and kari edwards. Here we’ve curated a collection of poems, videos, audio, essays, books, lesson plans, and ephemera in tribute to these and other women poets writing today.

Best-Loved American Women Poets

from ThoughtCo.com

The women you'll find in this collection are not necessarily the best women poets or the most literary, but ones whose poems have tended to be studied and/or remembered. A few were nearly forgotten and then resurrected in the 1960s-1980s as gender studies uncovered their work and contributions again. They're listed alphabetically.