After high school, Naheed went on to obtain a Master of Arts in Economics from Punjab University. Duffy has worked as a poet critic for What’s even more impressive were her first couple of poems she wrote as poet laureate. I would rather write about something important – say, sexual abuse or family relationships - that left me feeling exposed, than play it safe. Naheed is best known for her passion in women’s education.Kishwar Naheed was born in 1940 in India, but moved to Pakistan with her family after the partition in 1949. In a nutshell, her work focuses on systems of oppression and in making her poetry accessible.Duffy was born in the poor part of Glasgow. I think that women have a lot to be angry about these days… Growing up, I didn’t feel like I did have a voice, I didn’t feel like there was a space for me to be heard. Explore the rich tradition of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer poets and poetry by browsing a selection of poems & audio. Poetry.

Writing about uncensored experience is an act of resistance.”She certainly feels the art can be exposing – but therein lies its value, too. It also helps poetry find a huge, populist audience.

Check out her poem Bisexual. Rich’s poetry has maintained its overtly political, feminist edge throughout the decades since the Vietnam War and the social activism of the 1960s and 70s. Her I know I said I would discuss five badass female poets, but I couldn’t help but add in a little blurb about one of my favorite poets of all time!Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) was a Bisexual American poet, novelist, and memoirist who published under the pen name H.D. But, for me, she’s especially admirable for calling out British imperialism and white British colonialists themselves in her poetry!Mitsuye Yamada (1923) is a badass Japanese-American poet, feminist, essayist, activist, editor, and a former professor.Yamada was born in Fukuoka, Japan, but moved with her family to Seattle, Washington in 1926.

“I was tired of getting that ‘poetry face’, you know?” she says. Duffy wrote her first poem at the age of 11 and had her first poem published at the age of 15.

Marxist/Ecofeminist. I wanted to make an album that reflected the UK poetry scene and the different kinds of gigs.” It too was nominated for the Ted Hughes prize this year.Even advertising and fashion are getting wise to poetry’s hipster potential. If poetry makes you think of stuffy classrooms and impenetrable verse, think again. Through her work, we get some insight into life in Puritan New England. Jin became involved with the Triads, a group who advocated for the destruction of the Qing dynasty and a restoration of the Han Chinese government. Jin was known during her school time as one who wore Western male clothing and for her ideologies. Her first collection Yamada is also the founder of Multicultural Women Writers of Orange County and is featured in a documentary titled Carol Ann Duffy (1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright.

At the time, she was immediately recognized by fellow revolutionaries as a martyr and a heroine. Duffy, not afraid to speak the truth, wrote poems likeDuffy also makes sure her poetry is accessible.

She founded a radical women’s journal and became principal of a school for secretly training revolutionaries. She became the symbol of independence for women in China.Not only are Qiu Jin’s actions full of badass, so are her writings. Brit Hollie McNish just won the prestigious Ted Hughes poetry prize – but long before that, she’d racked up over 2 million hits on YouTube with poems about breastfeeding and immigration.‘Instapoets’, who amass huge followings on Instagram, are becoming publishing sensations: Indian-Canadian Rupi Kaur and Cambodian-born, New Zealand-based Lang Leav have both scooted up the New York Times bestseller lists.
The angry activism of young women demanding to be heard is coming through loud and clear; so is the outspokenness about sex, relationships, mental health and bodily functions that we’ve seen in other art forms (think of Girls and Nineteen-year-old American Nina Donovan’s rage-filled yet irrepressibly defiant spoken word piece Nasty Woman became To some extent, candid confessional poetry has always been associated with women – take a bow high priestess, Sylvia Plath. From there Naheed has held several major positions, including but not limited to: the general director of Pakistan National Council of the Arts, the editor of Naheed has six incredible works of poetry. “It’s changed a lot, particularly in the last two years. If you ask someone to name a feminist poet, more than likely the answer will be either Maya Angelou or Emily Dickinson.

It shouldn’t. Does the word make you think of rarefied tomes on dusty bookshelves, po-faced readings with glasses of warm white wine, or trudging dutifully through homework? Interested in women’s mythology? In school, we spent a day on female poets as opposed to weeks on male poets, and I always wondered, aren’t there more awesome female writers? Jin also became a part of the anti-Qing society which joined together with other anti-Qing groups to form the Tongmenghui. Popular as they may be, there’s often a certain literary sniffiness about their work; the form demands clarity and brevity, but some veer dangerously close to vapid motivational quotes (“Honour your scars. I have to be brave, to take risks, otherwise what's the point?”Melissa Lee-Houghton, shortlisted for the Ted Hughes award and the Forward prize – resists the label ‘confessional’ (Credit: Sophia Smith Galer)The overlap between poetry and other media has also been key in its widening appeal.
Her first work Obviously Naheed is exemplary for many reasons: fighting her way to education, setting up an organization to help women, and so on. Somali-British author Warsan Shire became a global name-to-know after her work was sampled on Beyoncé’s Lemonade. Jin spoke about her belief that women should have the freedom to marry who they choose and women shouldn’t have to bind their feet.

“I learned very early on to simplify the language and hone it down to the bare essentials.


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