Timely Connections: Fresh Perspectives from Female Poets
In an article for Edutopia, middle school educator Kasey Short provides suggestions and tips for “Studying Female Poets to Understand History“. After reading this thoughtful article, help your students get some fresh female perspectives of both history and contemporary life with these poetry-related resources.
Curator’s Picks: American Women Poets Library of Congress Blog March 26, 2015
Anne Bradstreet, Colonial Poet
Poetry by Civil War Era African American Women
Are women people? : a book of rhymes for suffrage times 1915 Alice Duer Miller
Poetry of America recordings by contemporary poets reading a singular American poem and speaking about how the poem connects, deepens, or re-imagines our sense of the nation
American Life in Poetry poems by contemporary American poets
American Conversations: Celebrating Poems in Rural Communities photos, audio recordings, interviews, poetry commentary and reflections of the travels through rural America of Tracy K. Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate 2017-19
Favorite Poem Project collection of 50 short video documentaries showcasing individual Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they love
Female Poet Resource Sets
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Emily Dickinson
- Helen Keller
- Gabriela Mistral
- Patricia Smith
- Tracy K. Smith
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Natasha Trethewey
- Phyllis Wheatley
Archive of Recorded Poetry & Literature
- Daisy Aldan
- Margaret Atwood
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Louise Bogan
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Sandra Cisneros
- Lucille Clifton
- Rita Dove
- Louise Glück
- Josephine Jacobsen
- June Jordan
- Shirley Kaufman
- Maxine Kumin
- Katie Louchheim
- Josephine Miles
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Elisavietta Ritchie
- Mona Van Duyn
- More poets
“The Poet and the Poem” Audio Podcasts
Learning Activities
- The Declaration, Her Declaration, Your Declaration
- Inaugural Poetry – Robert Frost and Maya Angelou Teacher’s Corner From the Catbird Seat
- Primary Source Learning: Inaugural Poems & Poets
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