Poetry is often drawn to beauty. So as she mapped out a life at the intersection of all her identities, she began to wonder: What it would mean "to not write towards beauty as a trans woman but to ...

Actress Ashley Judd read a poem by 19-year-old Nina Donovan from her home state of Tennessee. “I am a nasty woman,” the poem began. “Not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in Cheeto ...

It features more than 200 women from that region. Her anthology weaves poems, short stories, essays, speeches and more. The contributors live across the Americas and the Caribbean, in Europe and ...

was a woman deep in the councils of the Transcendentalists and a regular poet in the pages of The Dial, their chief New England journal. In her 1840 “I Slept, and Dreamed that Life was Beauty,” she ...

In March, Serenko was forced to flee Russia for Georgia, where she wrote this prose poem. Yesterday a woman began giving birth directly on the Red Square with an assault rifle pressed to her temple.

On what she hopes will be her biggest impact “I hope that my impact can be to inspire and encourage other people to engage with poetry as a form of social change.” On the first woman who made ...

with poems in your pocket, you’ll be armed with beauty and food for the soul and ... School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman’s University and the author of "Children ...

gave a stirring speech to the United Nations in Geneva on Wednesday that included a poem she said she had written “for a woman in Gaza” who “knows who she is.” Goldberg-Polin’s 23-year ...

Beth Calik, a recent transplant to Petersburg, Virginia, has discovered her passion for poetry. Calik's poem "The Shadows of the Lost Souls" reflects on the city's past struggles and hopes for ...