This is a list of female poets. People on this list should have articles of their own, and should meet the Wikipedia notability guidelines for their poetry. Please place names on the list only if there is a real and existing article on the poet. Dead links in RED will be removed.
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- Kathy Acker
- Léonie Adams
- Fleur Adcock
- Kim Addonizio
- Delmira Agustini (1886–1914), Uruguayan poet
- Bella Akhmadulina
- Anna Akhmatova
- Anne-Marie Albiach
- Jordie Albiston
- Claribel Alegría
- Elizabeth Alexander
- Al-Khansa
- Ethel Anderson
- Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
- Maya Angelou
- Elvia Ardalani, Mexican poet, writer, and storyteller
- Rae Armantrout
- Thea Astley
- Margaret Atwood
- Dorothy Auchterlonie
- Ava, German (d. 1127)
- Pam Ayres
- Elisaveta Bagryana
- Joanna Baillie
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld
- Mary Barnard
- Djuna Barnes
- Katharine Lee Bates
- Aphra Behn
- Gwendolyn B. Bennett
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
- Linda Bierds
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Susanna Blamire
- Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752-1783)
- Louise Bogan
- Eavan Boland
- Anne Lynch Botta (1815-1891)
- Karin Boye
- Anne Bradstreet
- Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659-1730)
- Martha Wadsworth Brewster
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Nicole Brossard
- Frances Browne (1816–1887)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Colette Bryce
Andrea Hollander Budy
C-D
- May Wedderburn Cannan
- Alice Cary
- Phoebe Cary
- Rosario Castellanos
- Rosalía de Castro
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
- Christina Charlotta Cederström (1760-1832)
- Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (1807-1834)
- Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
- Chrystos
- Sandra Cisneros
- Amy Clampitt
- Amy Key Clarke (1892-1980}
- Lucille Clifton
- Florence Earle Coates (1850-1927)
- Norma Cole
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
- Anne Compton b. 1947
- Ina Coolbrith (born Josephine Donna Smith) (1841-1928) first poet laureate of California, first public librarian in California
- Wendy Cope
- Marguerite Coppin (1867 - 1931) woman Poet Laureate of Belgium
- Corinna
- Jayne Cortez
- Dani Couture
- M. T. C. Cronin
- Cherubina de Gabriak
- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)
- Tina Darragh
- Kamala Das
- Regina Derieva
- Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)
- Emily Dickinson
- Blaga Dimitrova
- Diane Di Prima
- Rosemary Dobson
- Rita Dove
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis
- Camille Claudel
E-K
- Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818-1877)
- Lynn Emanuel
- Claudia Emerson
- Dorothe Engelbretsdotter
- Erinna
- Florbela Espanca
- Parvin E'tesami
- Mari Evans
- Forough Farrokhzad
- Jayne Fenton Keane
- Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchils
- Sia Figiel (1967-), Samoan poet
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Marie de France, 12th century
- Alice Fulton
- Frances Dana Barker Gage (1808-1884)
- Tess Gallagher (born 1943)
- Karina Galvez (1964 - ) Ecuadorian Poet
- Amy Gerstler
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
- Dame Mary Gilmour
- Nikki Giovanni
- Madeline Gleason
- Louise Gluck
- Hedwig Gorski
- Debora Greger
- Linda Gregg
- Angelina Weld Grimke
- Charlotte Forten Grimke
- Eliza Griswold
- Marilyn Hacker
- Nathalie Handal
- Carla Harryman
- Gwen Harwood
- Mihri Hatun
- Anne Hébert
- Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Allison Hedge Coke
- Lyn Hejinian
- Felicia Hemans
- Heo Nanseolheon (1563 - 1589)
- M. Miriam Herrera
- Dorothy Hewett
- Hilda Hilst
- Ellen Sturgis Hooper
- Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), author of Battle Hymn of the Republic
- Fanny Howe
- Susan Howe
- Ada Verdun Howell (1902-1981)
- Constance Hunting (1925-2006)
- Frieda Hughes
- Hồ Xuân Hương
- Jean Ingelow
- Josephine Jacobsen
- Lisa Jarnot
- Elizabeth Jennings
- Erica Jong
- Ingrid Jonker
- Jenny Joseph
- Sor Juana
- Sheema Kalbasi
- Julie Kane
- Antigone Kefala
- Al-Khansa, 7th century Islamic poet
- Vénus Khoury-Ghata
- Emelihter Kihleng, Federated States of Micronesia poet
- Carolyn Kizer
- Maxine Kumin
- Joanne Kyger
L-M
- Lalleshwari
- Aemilia Lanyer - one of the first Englishwomen to publish a volume of original poems and to seek patronage
- Lucy Larcom (1824-1893), millgirl, frequent contributor to the Lowell Offering, published four books of poetry in her lifetime
- Evelyn Lau
- Emma Lazarus (1849-1887), best known for her poem The New Colossus (inscribed on the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World)
- Mary Leapor
- Sue Lenier
- Anna Maria Lenngren (1754-1817)
- Denise Levertov (October 23, 1923-December 20, 1997)
- Erika Leibman (1738-1803)
- Li Qingzhao
- Audre Lorde
- Amy Lowell
- Mina Loy
- Jennifer Maiden
- Ruth Manning-Sanders, children's author who won the Blindman International Poetry Prize in 1926 for The City
- Chris Mansell
- Daphne Marlatt
- Marie de France
- Phyllis McGinley
- Cecília Meireles
- Sophia de Mello Breyner
- Grace Mera Molisa (1947-2002)
- Charlotte Mew
- Máire Mhac an tSaoi
- Josephine Miles
- Grazyna Miller
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Leslie Adrienne Miller
- Mirabai Hindu mystical poet
- Gabriela Mistral
- Susan Mitchell
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- Marianne Moore
- Barbara Moraff
- Hannah More
- Lisel Mueller (born 1924)
- Harryette Mullen
- Lale Müldür
- Carol Muske-Dukes
N-R
- Constance Naden
- Sarojini Naidu
- Adalgisa Nery (1905-1980), Brazilian poet, novelist, journalist and politician
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Lorine Niedecker
- Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)
- Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht
- Alice Notley
- Nukata no Ōkimi (630-690)
- Julia Nyberg (1784-1854)
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Charlotta Öberg (1818-1856)
- Sharon Olds
- Mary Oliver
- Mary Devenport O'Neill
- Ono no Komachi (c. 825-900)
- Mary Oppen
- Maggie O'Sullivan
- Ruth Padel
- Nettie Palmer
- Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960), suffragist, wrote Writ on Cold Slate, poems about her prison experience, in 1922
- Dorothy Parker
- Sophia Parnok (1885-1933), Russian Silver Age poet
- Marge Piercy
- Ruth Pitter
- Christine de Pizan
- Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972), Argentine poet
- Sylvia Plath
- Josefina Pla
- Katha Pollitt
- Marie Ponsot
- Dorothy Porter
- Pauline Prior-Pitt
- Amrita Pritam (1919-2005) India, Punjabi
- Dalia Rabikovich
- Jennifer Rankin
- Claudia Rankine
- Angela Rawlings
- Angela Readman
- Adrienne Rich
- Lola Ridge
- Laura Riding
- Denise Riley
- Lisa Robertson
- Ethel Rolt-Wheeler
- Christina Rossetti
- Anne Rouse
- Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
- Kay Ryan
S-T
- Nelly Sachs
- Mamta Sagar
- Blanaid Salkeld
- Fiona Sampson
- Sonia Sanchez
- Sappho
- Dipti Saravanamuttu
- Nina Serrano
- Anne Sexton
- Jo Shapcott
- Mary Sidney
- Edith Sitwell
- Vendela Skytte, (1608-1629)
- Charlotte Turner Smith
- Patti Smith
- Stevie Smith
- Tracy K. Smith
- Leonora Speyer
- Gertrude Stein
- Susan Stewart
- Ruth Stone
- Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938),
- Samina Raja
- Sulpicia
- May Swenson
- Wislawa Szymborska
- Edith Södergran
- Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891-1968), Soviet Russian poet
- Teresia Teaiwa, I-Kiribati poet
- Sara Teasdale
- Thalia
- Celia Thaxter
- Elizabeth Thomas
- Natasha Trethewey
- Marina Tsvetaeva
- Chase Twichell
U-Z
- Uvavnuk, Inuit poet
- Jean Valentine
- Mona Van Duyn
- Janine Pommy Vega
- Mahadevi Verma
- Renée Vivien French poet
- Diane Wakoski
- Rosmarie Waldrop
- Anne Waldman
- Alice Walker
- Ania Walwicz
- Hannah Weiner
- Viola S. Wendt
- Phillis Wheatley
- Ulrika Widström
- Isabella Whitney
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Anna Wickham
- Elizabeth Willis
- Judith Wright
- C.D. Wright
- Lady Mary Wroth - prolific author of the Jacobean era
- Audrey Wurdemann
- Elinor Wylie
- Olga Xirinacs Díaz
- Yeo-ok
- Marya Zaturenska
- Fay Zwicky
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