Since poems about a mum's death often focus on the past, this can be a unique way to remember a special woman. To My Mother ...
I was a young, closeted, Black lesbian and her poems were empowering and life-altering. Parker spoke directly to me when she discussed the beauty of loving another woman: ‘my lover is a woman / & when ...
Each poem has been selected by an incredible woman including Olivia Colman, Annie Lennox and Vanessa Redgrave. Below, Stylist picks five of the most powerful poems in the book, introduced by the ...
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Love Comes Quietly” by Robert Creeley, and more. Mother’s Day: Poems for Kids The following poems are about mothers and motherhood like “Wonder Woman” by Angelo Geter, ...
What Woman That Was: Poems for Mary Dyer by Anne Myles ’84 celebrates the life of the 17th-century New England Quaker martyred for her religious faith and courageous witness to persecution. The ...
Yuka Kanzaki decided to translate poems composed by a woman with cerebral palsy to send a message that disabilities never slow down people like them. “People tend to think that they cannot do ...
A woman receiving end-of-life care has fulfilled an ambition by publishing a book of poems. Sarah Colina started writing the poems more than 40 years ago but never got round to getting her work ...
Tanka poems composed by Dokuho Okada ... published in The Asahi Shimbun’s Kadan tanka section: "The corn the old woman is growing for her grandchildren/ Are eaten at night/ By vexing wild ...