There are 183 Poems about Gender

Watching dan-
-cers on skates
By Lorine Niedecker

"'kitty'. sixteen,5'1",white,prostitute"
By E. E. Cummings

1994
By Lucille Clifton

The Common Women Poems, II. Ella, in a square apron, along Highway 80
By Judy Grahn

The Common Women Poems, III. Nadine, resting on her neighbor’s stoop
By Judy Grahn

A Double Standard
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

A Gallup Swill-Hole; Or, Cantina Blues
By Clarence Major

A Historical Footnote to Consider Only When All Else Fails
By Nikki Giovanni

A History of Sexual Preference
By Robin Becker

A Pretty Woman
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

A Suckling Pig
By Chase Twichell

A Woman Speaks
By Audre Lorde

Afterimages
By Audre Lorde

Air and Angels
By John Donne

All the Women Caught in Flaring Light
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Always unsuitable
By Marge Piercy

An “If” for Girls
By Elizabeth Lincoln Otis

An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

An Appeal to Women
By Sarah Louisa Forten

Anchorage
By Joy Harjo

Asking About You
By Eloise Klein Healy

Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“What Do Women Want?”
By Kim Addonizio

Belly Dancer
By Diane Wakoski

Belly good
By Marge Piercy

Brother and Sister
By George Eliot

Carrie Leigh’s Hugh Hefner Haikus
By Lynn Crosbie

Changing What We Mean
By Eloise Klein Healy

Changing Woman
By Annie Finch

Cock
By Albert Goldbarth

Crying in Front of a Man
By Kate Gale

Edison in Love
By Robin Ekiss

Elegy for a Soldier
By Marilyn Hacker

Ellen West
By Frank Bidart

Emily Hardcastle, Spinster
By John Crowe Ransom

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle II: To a Lady on the Characters of Women
By Alexander Pope

Epithalament
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Eve's Design
By Moira Linehan

For My Daughter
By Antonella Anedda

For the young who want to
By Marge Piercy

For Virginia Chavez
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Foredoom
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

From Her Notes
By Nomi Stone

From the Dressing-Room
By Medbh McGuckian

Ghazal For A Poetess
By Annie Finch

Giving a Manicure
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Hail
By Mary Szybist

Harp Song of the Dane Women
By Rudyard Kipling

Harrison Street Court
By Carl Sandburg

Hendecasyllables on Catullus #33
By Bernadette Mayer

Hidden Harvest
By Rodrigo Toscano

How to Write the Great American Indian Novel
By Sherman Alexie

Hymn to the Comb-Over
By Wesley McNair

I Am the Woman
By William Vaughn Moody

I Knocked My Head against the Wall
By Anna Swir

I Sit and Sew
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

I’m Over the Moon
By Brenda Shaughnessy

In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen ELIZABETH
By Anne Bradstreet

In Reference to her Children, 23 June 1659
By Anne Bradstreet

Interview
By Dorothy Parker

Jenny
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Kitchen Chair Poem #5
By Clarence Major

Lady Lazarus
By Sylvia Plath

Lectures to Women on Physical Science
By James Clerk Maxwell

Let Me Count the Waves
By Sandra Beasley

Letter For Emily Dickinson
By Annie Finch

Lies and Longing
By Linda Gregg

Lothar’s Wife
By Colleen J. McElroy

Love's Alchemy
By John Donne

Makeup
By Dora Malech

Male Rage Poem
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Margaret Fuller Slack
By Edgar Lee Masters

Marriage
By Marianne Moore

Marrying the Hangman
By Margaret Atwood

Massachusetts
By Terry Wolverton

Meditation at Fifty Yards, Moving Target
By Rita Dove

Men Say Brown
By Henry M. Seiden

Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets
By Christina Rossetti

More Females of the Species
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Mythology
By Marilyn Hacker

Nameless Pain
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

Next Day
By Randall Jarrell

No More and No Less
By Mahmoud Darwish

Noah’s Wife
By Linda Gregerson

from Odes: 14. Gin the Goodwife Stint
By Basil Bunting

On the Farm
By R. S. Thomas

On the Metro
By C. K. Williams

One Girl of Many
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

from One Hundred Quatrains
By Patrizia Valduga

Ophelia's Technicolor G-String: An Urban Mythology
By Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett

Outbreak
By Donald Revell

Paris and Helen
By Judy Grahn

Perplexity: A Poem
By Elizabeth Hands

Phenomenal Woman
By Maya Angelou

Philomela
By Matthew Arnold

Planetarium
By Adrienne Rich

Poem about My Rights
By June Jordan

Poem for Nana
By June Jordan

Postfeminism
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Pro Femina
By Carolyn Kizer

Project for a Fainting
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Prologue
By Anne Bradstreet

Queens
By J. M. Synge

rape
By Patti Smith

Red String
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Roslyn
By Thulani Davis

seventh heaven
By Patti Smith

Sheep
By Judy Grahn

Siren Song
By Margaret Atwood

Sisters in Arms
By Audre Lorde

Slowly: a plainsong from an older woman to a younger woman
By Judy Grahn

Smothered Fires
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

Some Are Dead and Some Are Living
By Colleen J. McElroy

Somebody Else’s Baby
By Mary Jo Salter

Song: Go and catch a falling star
By John Donne

Still I Rise
By Maya Angelou

Suburban Pastoral
By Dave Lucas

Subway Seethe
By J. Allyn Rosser

Superfly
By Lynn Crosbie

Superhero Pregnant Woman
By Jessy Randall

Taking Notice
By Marilyn Hacker

That Country
By Grace Paley

The Anti-Suffragist
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Anti-Suffragists
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

The Bad Mother
By Susan Griffin

The Beggars
By Margaret Widdemer

The Bodies
By Elizabeth Spires

The Brassiere Factory
By Kenneth Koch

The Coming Woman
By Mary Weston Fordham

The Drowning of Immoral Women
By Herbert Morris

The Feast of Stephen
By Anthony Hecht

The Good Wife Taught Her Daughter
By Medbh McGuckian

The Harpy
By Robert W. Service

The Heart of a Woman
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

The Housewife
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

The Indifferent
By John Donne

The Indifferent Shepherdess to Colin
By Ann Yearsley

The Lady and the Doctor
By Helen Leigh

The Lady of the Castle
By John Hollander

The Luggage
By Constance Urdang

The Menstrual Hut
By Annie Finch

The Mermaid in the Hospital
By Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

The Mother’s Charge
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

The Old Maid Factory
By Constance Urdang

The One I Think of Now
By Wesley McNair

The Paradox
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Perfect Mother
By Susan Griffin

The Poster Girl’s Defence
By Carolyn Wells

The Road
By Herbert Morris

The Shipman's Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Thorn
By William Wordsworth

The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Woman Hanging From The Thirteenth Floor Window
By Joy Harjo

The Woman Who Loved Worms
By Colette Inez

To Elsie
By William Carlos Williams

To Madame Curie
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

To Matthew Dodsworth, Esq., On a Noble Captain Declaring that His Finger Was Broken by a Gate
By Anna Dodsworth

To The Indifferent Women
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

To the Ladies
By Lady Mary Chudleigh

To the Young Wife
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Turkish Bath
By Sidney Wade

Unholy Women
By Chris Abani

War Voyeurs
By Juan Felipe Herrera

Washing Day
By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Watching the Complex Train-Track Changes
By Bernadette Mayer

We Real Cool
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Webs and Weeds
By Colleen J. McElroy

Wedding Dress
By Michael Waters

What are big girls made of?
By Marge Piercy

What are the Days?
By Colette Inez

When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly
By Oliver Goldsmith

Which Has More Patience -- Man or Woman?
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

Who Said It Was Simple
By Audre Lorde

wishes for sons
By Lucille Clifton

Woman Unborn
By Anna Swir

Woman’s Rights
By Rebekah Gumpert Hyneman

Women
By Louise Bogan

Women
By May Swenson

won't you celebrate with me
By Lucille Clifton

You Love, You Wonder
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Young Harlan
By Richard Emil Braun

[The wild and wavy event]
By Lorine Niedecker