Ada Limón
24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress
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Helena Blackwood
1800s baroness of Dufferin and Clandeboye, countess of Gifford, author and songwriter
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks was an exceptional and influential poet, whose talent was to engulf her readers in her world.
Charlotte Forten Grimke
Prominent abolitionist and women’s rights advocate. During the Civil War, Forten taught newly freed African-Americans on the Sea Islands of South Carolina. Her writings and poetry showed her commitment to battling racial and gender inequality.
Katharine Lee Bates
Katharine Lee Bates was a professor and writer best remembered as the author of the lyrics to the song “America the Beautiful.” She shared a home for almost three decades with her companion, fellow academic and social reformer Katharine Coman.
Tilly Aston
Tilly Aston, ‘Australia’s Own Helen Keller’ was a blind writer and teacher who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers and later went on to establish and become secretary of the Association for the Advancement of the Blind.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Harlem Renaissance poet, critic, journalist, and activist
Eleonora Charlotta d’Albedyhll
Swedish poet
Aphra Behn
1600s playwright, poet and spy
Marjory Nicholls
New Zealand poet, teacher and drama producer