List of women poets

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• Lalleshvari Kashmiri poet
• Aemilia Lanyer - first Englishwoman to publish a volume of original poems and to seek patronage
• Lucy Larcom (1824-1893), millgirl, frequent contributor to the Lowell Offering, published four books of poetry in her lifetime
• Evelyn Lau
• Emma Lazarus (1849-1887), best known for her poem The New Colossus (inscribed on the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World)
• Mary Leapor
• Denise Levertov
• Amy Lowell
• Mina Loy
• Esther Mathews
• Marie de France
• Cecília Meireles
• Charlotte Mew
• Máire Mhac an tSaoi
• Josephine Miles
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Gabriela Mistral
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
• Geraldine Monk
• Marianne Moore
• Barbara Moraff
• Hannah More
• Wendy Mulford
• Sarojini Naidu
• Adalgisa Nery (1905-1980), Brazilian poet, novelist, journalist and politician
• Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
• Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
• Lorine Niedecker
• Grace Fallow Norton
• Mona Oikawa
• Mary Devenport O'Neill
• Maggie O'Sullivan
• Mirabai Hindu mystical poet
• Ruth Padel
• Nettie Palmer
• Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960), suffragist, wrote Writ on Cold Slate, poems about her prison experience, in 1922
• Dorothy Parker
• Katherine Phillips
• Ruth Pitter
• Christine de Pizan
• Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972), Argentine poet
• Sylvia Plath
• Dalia Rabikovich
• Elaine Randell
• Adrienne Rich
• Lola Ridge
• Denise Riley
• Christina Rossetti
• Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)