Feminist poetry is inspired by, promotes, or elaborates on feminist principles and ideas.[1] It might be written with the conscious aim of expressing feminist principles, although sometimes it is identified as feminist by critics in a later era.[1] Some writers are thought to express feminist ideas even if the writer was not an active member of the political movement during their era.[1] Many feminist movements, however, have embraced poetry as a vehicle for communicating with public audiences through anthologies, poetry collections, and public readings.[1]
Formally, feminist poetry often seeks to challenge assumptions about language and meaning.[2] It usually foregrounds women's experiences as valid and worthy of attention, and it also highlights the lived experiences of minorities and other less privileged subjects.[2] Sometimes feminist poems seek to embody specific women's experiences, and they are often intersectional registering specific forms of oppression depending on identities related to race, sexuality, gender presentation, disability, or immigration status.[2] This has led to feminist writing journals like So To Speak providing a statement of intention to publish the work of women and nonbinary people in particular.
Kim Whitehead states that feminist poetry has "no identifiable birth date," but there are a few key figures identified as early proponents of feminist ideas, and who convey their politics through poetry.[2] The title of first feminist poet is often given to Sappho, at least in part because she seems to write about female homosexuality in Ancient Greece, a culture and time when lesbian sexuality was usually ignored or erased.[3][4][5]
^ abcdGolden, Shyama. "Poetry and Feminism". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved September 4, 2018.
^ abcdWhitehead, Kim (1996). The Feminist Poetry Movement. Jackson MS: University Press of Mississippi. pp. 3, ix–x, xii, xv, xvi, xviii, xviii–ix.
^Reading Sappho : contemporary approaches. Greene, Ellen, 1950-. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1996. ISBN 9780520918061. OCLC 43477494.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^Jannerson, Deb (2011). "ADVENTURES IN FEMINISTORY: SAPPHO". Bitch Media. Archived from the original on 2021-05-02. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
^Catalano, Gabby. "How This Historic Icon Influenced Feminist Writers Today". Women's Media Centre.
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