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Women Poets
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Akhmatova, Anna (1889 - 1966) Russia
Andal (9th Century) India
Angelou, Maya (1928 - ) US
Avaiyar (14th Century) India
  Barker, Elsa (1869 - 1954) US
Bhawani, Rupa (1621 - 1721) India
  Bradstreet, Anne (1612 - 1672) US
Bronte, Emily (1818 - 1848) England
Catherine of Siena (1347 - 1380) Italy
  Chikako, Jusammi (14th Century) Japan
Chiyo-ni, Fukuda (1703 - 1775) (Japan)
Clare of Assisi (1193? - 1254) Italy
Dickinson, Emily (1830 - 1886) US
Ganjavi, Mahsati (12th Century) Azerbaijan
Gascoigne, Dame Catherine (1600 - 1676) England
  Govindasvami (7th Century) India
Griffiths, Ann (1776 - 1805) Wales
Hadewijch (13th Century) Belgium
  Hatun, Zeynep (15th Century) Turkey
  Hayati, Bibi (19th Century) Iran/Persia
Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179) Germany
Hirshfield, Jane (Contemporary) US
  Janabai (1298 - 1350?) India
Kanaka'ole, Edith (20th Century) US, Hawaii
Kuzminsky, Irina (1959 - ) (Australia)
Lalla (14th Century) Kashmir (India/Pakistan)
Levertov, Denise (1923 - 1997) US
Lowitz, Leza (1962 - ) US
Mahadevi, Akka (12th Century) India
Mechthild of Magdeburg (1207 - 1297) Germany
Mirabai (1498 - 1565?) India
Mistral, Gabriela (1889 - 1957) Chile
Muktabai (13th Century) India
Oliver, Mary (1935 - ) US
  Porete, Marguerite (1260? - 1310) France
  Rabia al-Basri (Adawiyya, Rabia al-) (717 - 801) Iraq
  Reninger, Elizabeth (1963 - ) US
  Shikibu, Izumi (974? - 1034?) Japan
Stein, Edith (1891 - 1942) Germany
Sun Buer (1124? - 1182?) China
Szymborska, Wislawa (1923 - 2012) Poland
Teasdale, Sara (1884 - 1933) US
Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582) Spain
Therese of Lisieux (1873 - 1897) France
Tsogyel, Yeshe (8th Century) Tibet
Tsvetaeva, Marina (1892 - 1941) Russia
Twichell, Chase (1950 - ) US
Underhill, Evelyn (1875 - 1941) England
  Walters, Dorothy (1928 - ) US
  Wu Cailan (9th Century) China