Best Contemporary Female Poets

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The Dead and the Living
The Dead and the Living 4.16 avg rating β€” 3,910 ratings
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Bluets
Bluets 4.06 avg rating β€” 54,819 ratings
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Labyrinth Heart
Labyrinth Heart
by: Naiad
4.30 avg rating β€” 57 ratings
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What is Left of Us
What is Left of Us 4.17 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Bullets and Silver Linings
Bullets and Silver Linings
by: Lorelei .
3.75 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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The Will to Change
The Will to Change 4.20 avg rating β€” 245 ratings
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Complete Poems
Complete Poems 4.02 avg rating β€” 3,151 ratings
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The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1)
The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1) 3.82 avg rating β€” 156,307 ratings
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Thirst
Thirst 4.32 avg rating β€” 6,536 ratings
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How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001
How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001
by: Joy Harjo
4.31 avg rating β€” 1,283 ratings
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The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poem
The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poem 4.37 avg rating β€” 990 ratings
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No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
by: Sarah Kay
4.20 avg rating β€” 15,623 ratings
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What the Living Do: Poems
What the Living Do: Poems 4.31 avg rating β€” 5,068 ratings
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Satan Says (Pitt Poetry Series)
Satan Says (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.22 avg rating β€” 2,438 ratings
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Smoke
Smoke 4.39 avg rating β€” 484 ratings
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The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2) 3.73 avg rating β€” 48,468 ratings
17.
Here
Here 4.22 avg rating β€” 2,193 ratings
18.
Blue Horses
Blue Horses 4.28 avg rating β€” 11,650 ratings
19.
The World's Wife
The World's Wife 4.11 avg rating β€” 10,607 ratings
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Dear Boy
Dear Boy 3.84 avg rating β€” 538 ratings
21.
Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad
Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad 4.22 avg rating β€” 1,886 ratings
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An American Sunrise
An American Sunrise
by: Joy Harjo
4.28 avg rating β€” 7,695 ratings
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The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3)
The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3) 3.68 avg rating β€” 20,408 ratings
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Incarnadine: Poems
Incarnadine: Poems 4.17 avg rating β€” 1,736 ratings
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The Wild Iris
The Wild Iris 4.18 avg rating β€” 14,613 ratings
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Bestiary: Poems
Bestiary: Poems 4.16 avg rating β€” 1,893 ratings
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nejma
nejma 4.03 avg rating β€” 6,026 ratings
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Odes
Odes 3.95 avg rating β€” 1,111 ratings
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A Thousand Mornings: Poems
A Thousand Mornings: Poems 4.20 avg rating β€” 30,471 ratings
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Weeds and Wild Flowers
Weeds and Wild Flowers really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 171 ratings
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Experience in the Medium of Destruction
Experience in the Medium of Destruction 4.38 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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Milk Fever
Milk Fever 4.70 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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Just Living
Just Living 4.20 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Finding Identity
Finding Identity
by: Silenus
4.08 avg rating β€” 39 ratings
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Prison Poems
Prison Poems 4.25 avg rating β€” 57 ratings
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Divided: The Human Side of Us
Divided: The Human Side of Us really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Golden
Golden it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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fertility rites: poems, shorts and musings
fertility rites: poems, shorts and musings 3.86 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Same
Same really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 130 ratings
40.
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry 4.26 avg rating β€” 3,543 ratings
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Yellowbird
Yellowbird 4.82 avg rating β€” 89 ratings
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The Emperor's Babe
The Emperor's Babe 3.65 avg rating β€” 4,248 ratings
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Nature: Poems Old and New
Nature: Poems Old and New 4.22 avg rating β€” 94 ratings
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B
B
by: Sarah Kay
4.48 avg rating β€” 3,852 ratings
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Love & Misadventure
Love & Misadventure
by: Lang Leav
3.93 avg rating β€” 57,966 ratings
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Obit
Obit 4.25 avg rating β€” 4,101 ratings
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The Anatomy of Being
The Anatomy of Being 4.26 avg rating β€” 4,436 ratings
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Truce
Truce 4.74 avg rating β€” 108 ratings
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Glass, Irony and God
Glass, Irony and God 4.32 avg rating β€” 5,104 ratings
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Crushed Wild Mint
Crushed Wild Mint 4.43 avg rating β€” 151 ratings
51.
There Are More Beautiful Things Than BeyoncΓ©
There Are More Beautiful Things Than BeyoncΓ© really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 5,687 ratings
51.
Flower Boy
Flower Boy 4.67 avg rating β€” 70 ratings
51.
Faithful and Virtuous Night
Faithful and Virtuous Night 3.94 avg rating β€” 5,857 ratings
51.
And Yet: Poems
And Yet: Poems
by: Kate Baer
3.95 avg rating β€” 6,864 ratings
55.
Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays 4.42 avg rating β€” 3,005 ratings
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How It Ends
How It Ends 4.81 avg rating β€” 73 ratings
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What Kind of Woman: Poems
What Kind of Woman: Poems
by: Kate Baer
4.05 avg rating β€” 19,762 ratings
58.
bone
bone 4.14 avg rating β€” 8,355 ratings
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Her Blue Body
Her Blue Body 4.61 avg rating β€” 255 ratings
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I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
by: Kate Baer
4.27 avg rating β€” 9,446 ratings
61.
The Usable Field
The Usable Field
by: Jane Mead
4.13 avg rating β€” 63 ratings
61.
New and Selected Poems, Volume One
New and Selected Poems, Volume One 4.54 avg rating β€” 14,329 ratings
61.
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth 4.24 avg rating β€” 21,147 ratings
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Thrall
Thrall 4.13 avg rating β€” 1,678 ratings
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I Do Everything I'm Told
I Do Everything I'm Told 4.09 avg rating β€” 1,115 ratings
66.
House of Light
House of Light 4.33 avg rating β€” 4,323 ratings
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Our Men Do Not Belong To Us
Our Men Do Not Belong To Us 4.22 avg rating β€” 1,153 ratings
66.
Ordinary Beast: Poems
Ordinary Beast: Poems 4.02 avg rating β€” 1,272 ratings
66.
I Love You, Call Me Back: Poems
I Love You, Call Me Back: Poems 3.82 avg rating β€” 1,524 ratings
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Why I Wake Early
Why I Wake Early 4.40 avg rating β€” 9,039 ratings
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Warsan vs Melancholy
Warsan vs Melancholy 4.64 avg rating β€” 137 ratings
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Oceanic
Oceanic 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,630 ratings
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Goldenrod: Poems
Goldenrod: Poems 3.93 avg rating β€” 4,877 ratings
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Imitation of Life
Imitation of Life 3.91 avg rating β€” 32 ratings
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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver 4.57 avg rating β€” 26,341 ratings
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Lord of the Butterflies
Lord of the Butterflies 4.42 avg rating β€” 6,215 ratings
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A Bit Much
A Bit Much 4.40 avg rating β€” 4,098 ratings
78.
Waving from Shore: Poems
Waving from Shore: Poems 4.03 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
78.
Bright Dead Things
Bright Dead Things
by: Ada Limon
4.20 avg rating β€” 13,804 ratings
78.
Modern Poetry: Poems
Modern Poetry: Poems 4.28 avg rating β€” 975 ratings
81.
Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
Otherwise: New and Selected Poems 4.33 avg rating β€” 1,929 ratings
81.
Facts About the Moon
Facts About the Moon 4.31 avg rating β€” 904 ratings
81.
Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately
Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately 3.76 avg rating β€” 5,704 ratings
84.
Boneshaker (Pitt Poetry Series)
Boneshaker (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.14 avg rating β€” 101 ratings
84.
Dog Songs: Poems
Dog Songs: Poems 4.24 avg rating β€” 18,084 ratings
86.
Nana, Vol. 1
Nana, Vol. 1
by: Ai Yazawa
4.38 avg rating β€” 69,751 ratings
87.
Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil
Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil 3.88 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
87.
Stranger, Baby
Stranger, Baby 3.85 avg rating β€” 714 ratings
89.
Dream Work
Dream Work 4.35 avg rating β€” 13,836 ratings
89.
This Is How You Survive
This Is How You Survive 4.41 avg rating β€” 51 ratings
91.
Habibi
Habibi 3.64 avg rating β€” 2,958 ratings
91.
Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems 4.11 avg rating β€” 2,733 ratings
93.
A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde
A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde 3.93 avg rating β€” 138 ratings
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Slave Moth: A Narrative in Verse
Slave Moth: A Narrative in Verse 4.30 avg rating β€” 81 ratings
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Wade in the Water: Poems
Wade in the Water: Poems 4.08 avg rating β€” 3,742 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.20 avg rating β€” 2,733 ratings
96.
Vice: New and Selected Poems
Vice: New and Selected Poems
by: Ai
4.10 avg rating β€” 522 ratings
98.
Bonfire Opera: Poems
Bonfire Opera: Poems 4.57 avg rating β€” 332 ratings
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Fort Red Border
Fort Red Border 4.26 avg rating β€” 141 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.20 avg rating β€” 2,813 ratings
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