Sometimes you've got to give yourself a moral pep talk to inspire your feminism. And, while there's plenty of conversation about feminism in the age of Trump, sometimes it can be hard to feel ...

If you want to commit to something — a creative practice, a way of life, even a dietary change — you can never remind yourself too often of your goals. Not surprisingly, the advent of 2017 brought ...

If you're at all skeptical of your ability to enjoy poetry, I don't blame you. I know I used to be. It's hard not to equate poetry with tough days at school analyzing poems about things that have ...

The first time I read Adrienne Rich was in 1979, a high school essay on "Storm Warnings," an old-fashioned extended metaphor in one of those anthologies English teachers love to assign. "Weather ...

“I know I was lookin’ good, I had my Kenneth Cole shoes on/ My Gianni Versace blue leather suit/ My nails were done and my hair was fierce.” These words open up the 1984 hit song “The Men All Pause” ...

Amidst an evening of white roses and disappointingly low numbers of wins for women in major categories, sole female Album of the Year nominee Lorde made a poignant feminist statement with her gown at ...

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Alfonsina Storni, an early 20th century feminist whose arduous life ended in suicide, is remembered as one of Argentina's foremost modern poets -- but she is far from a household name outside the ...

This masterpiece is going straight on the fridge. The articulate and emotionally charged poem, titled The True Feminine, is nothing short of a masterpiece and is bound to be hanging in pride of place ...

A lot of us find it hard to put how we’re feeling about the world into words. But one third grader has no such problem, and their feminist poem has people calling them the “Gen Z Sylvia Plath.” ...

Senegalese author and feminist Mariama Bâ (pictured) is famous for her French-language novels “So Long a Letter” and “Scarlet Song.” But thanks to recent research by Associate Professor Tobias Warner, ...

THE CLEARING: Poems, by Allison Adair. (Milkweed, $22.) The poems in Adair’s debut draw on folklore and the animal world to assert feminist viewpoints and mortal ...