Ten Women Poets

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(meme via brisingamen

Off the top of your head, name 10 women poets.

Mine, in no particular order

Sappho
Sharon Olds
Muriel Rukeyser
Carol Ann Duffy
Dorothy Livesay
Daphne Marlatt
Phyllis Webb
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Eavon Boland
Marianne Moore

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Sappho
Charlotte Mew
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Emily Bronte
Carol Ann Duffy
Elizabeth Cary
Aemilia Lanyer
U. A. Fanthorpe
Wendy Cope

A fun exercise!

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But now I can't believe I left off Emily Dickinson!

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So many good choices. Makes me want to read poetry.