Please can recommend some female poets?

Question: Please can recommend some female poets!?

Not Emily Dickinson because I have loads of her stuff!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

Maya Angelou

Contemporary Women Poets
Humorous Poems

Lucille Clifton - Wishes for Sons

Jean Nordhaus - Posthumous

Contemporary Women Poets

Lola Haskins - Sleep Positions

Anne Sexton - The Big Heart

Carol Ann Duffy - Talent

Omololá Ijeoma ògúnyemí - Whispers

Alice Walker - Expect Nothing

Jan Gibson - Season

Susan Berlin - Request Denied

Denise Duhamel - For the One Man Who Likes My Thighs

Ellen Snell Adams - What We Don't Bring Out In Company
Feminist Poems by Women

Marge Piercy - For the young who want to

Lena Lathrop - A Womans QuestionWww@QuestionHome@Com

My personal favorites:
Sappho
Sylvia Plath
Margaret Atwood
Naomi Shihab Nye
Maya Angelou
Louisa May Alcott
Gwendoly Brooks
Nikki Giovanni (sp!?)
Willa Cather
Erika Jong (a bit racy)
Denise Levertov
Sharon Olds
Ann Sexton
Alice Walker
Marianne MooreWww@QuestionHome@Com

carol ann duffy!.
the world's wife is a collection of her (very feminist-not a bad thing, but she is a little whiney) poems!.

speaking of such, please answer my latest question on duffy!.!.!.!.
find it by going to my profileWww@QuestionHome@Com

Elizabeth Cook
Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath(e!?)

Pick up a copy of Poetry, or any other journal in your library, see what you like!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Sylvia Plath, Emily Bronte, Judith Wright, Elizabeth Barrett Browning!.!.!.I can't think of anymore! how terribleWww@QuestionHome@Com

also, Maya Angelou!. Absolutely superb modern poetry!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Check out Sylvia Plath's "Ariel!." Her poem "Daddy" is great!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You have some great answers here!.

I would add:

Louise Gluck -- The Wild Iris

Carolyn Forche -- The Country Between Us

Sharon Olds -- Satan SaysWww@QuestionHome@Com

Eavan Boland
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningWww@QuestionHome@Com

Pam AyresWww@QuestionHome@Com

I would add Wendy Cope!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Sappho!!!!!! :D

and!.!.!.you can visit my 360, and read my poems, after all I am a female too :)Www@QuestionHome@Com