Here are 30 poetry collections by women that will keep you motivated to resist. From East New York, to the South Side of Chicago, ... personal poetry and political calls to action.

It’s a poem I’ve come back to many times, having been involved in politics and government off and on for 40 years. I’ve come back to it at times when people, including me, needed to pull ...

Talking politics, from left, Becky Conner, Sidra Butt and Kim Drew Wright meet with about 20 members of the Liberal Women of Chesterfield County at a local coffee shop in the suburbs of Richmond, Va.

Actress Ashley Judd read a poem by 19-year-old Nina Donovan from her home state of Tennessee. “I am a nasty woman,” the poem began. “Not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in Cheeto ...

Omar’s tweet comes from the famed poem “Still I Rise,” published in 1978 by Maya Angelou. The poem has long been a rallying call for black people around the world.

Judd, also a Franklin resident, read a poem by 19-year-old Nina Donovan.. The "Nasty Woman" poem criticizes President Donald Trump and points out inequalities in the United States.

The aftermath of the 2016 election has found many Americans seeking solace—and wisdom—in verse. The editor of Poetry magazine has some ideas why.

The book grew out of members' submissions to a Greenwich Pen Women-conceived contest that embraced submissions from as many as 30 NLAPW branches across the country said Deborah Weir, Poetry ...

Maya Angelou, who died Wednesday at age 86, first leapt into the political consciousness when she read a poem she wrote for President Bill Clinton's inauguration titled, "On the Pulse of Morning ...

It's a series of questions Frawley has been asked in her work as a midwife, as an advocate for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence, and as a woman.