women poets

This stunning story of the author's struggle to break free of her strict Rastafarian upbringing ruled by a father whose rigid beliefs, rage and paranoia led to violence shows how found her own power and provides a unique glimpse into a rarefied world we know little about.

Whether writing for herself or speaking to the nation, Amanda Gorman shares her powerful voice. She also helps others speak about what matters most to them. Find out what drives the first National Youth Poet Laureate and the youngest inaugural poet.

"Two parallel stories reflect and intertwine in a tale of youthful dreams and desires. In 1856, Teresa, a young aristocrat, is more interested in writing avant-garde horror poetry than making a suitable marriage. In 2016, three teenage girls, Gloria, Laura, and Cristina, want to start a punk band called the Black Holes. They have everything they need: attitude, looks, instinct . . . and an alarming lack of musical talent. They've barely started rehearsing when strange things begin to happen. As their world and Teresa's intersect, they're haunted by the echo of something that happened 160 years ago"--Provided by publisher.

Presents season six of HBO's "Def Poetry" hosted by Mos Def, featuring performances of original material by established, as well as up-and-coming spoken word poets, musicians, and comedians.

One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality, violence to joy. And always and inexorably, the book moves toward celebration, culminating in a series of odes: odes to the body, to tough women, to embracing your own journey in all its failures and triumphs.

Author Nikki Grimes shares her life experiences, discusses how they influenced her work, and describes her writing process.

A biography of nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson, focusing on her lifelong struggle with religious belief, and relating her personal development--as it can be charted through her writings--to what is known of the politics, and religious, social, and intellectual history of her times.

Chronicles the life of poet Muriel Rukeyser and analyzes her writings.

Aemilia Lanyer, the daughter of a Venetian musician and a former favorite at Queen Elizabeth's court, begs for help from her former lover, William Shakespeare, when her son falls ill with the plague.

Fictionalizes the life of Emily Dickinson, portraying the American poet as a student at Mount Holyoke in 1848, before she succumbed to a reclusive existence at her family's home in Amherst, Massachusetts.