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Celebrating Women’s History Month

By The Editors

April 13, 2017

Poems, articles, podcasts, and blog posts that explore women’s history and women’s rights.

Poem

A Woman Speaks

By Audre Lorde

Moon marked and touched by sun
my magic is unwritten
but when the sea turns back
it will leave my shape behind.
I seek no favor
untouched by blood
unrelenting as the curse of love
permanent as my errors
or my pride
I do not mix
love with pity
nor hate...

Prose from Poetry Magazine

Carolyn Rodgers: Loving on Black People

By Nikky Finney

Audio

A Change of World documentary: Poetry and the Women's Movement

Meryl Streep narrates our hour-long radio documentary special about how the Women’s Movement changed poetry, and how women poets changed the culture.

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T.S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

By Peter O’Leary

One of the most famous poems in English, one of the first encounters readers have with modern poetry—and may have even invented modern poetry.

"And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor – And this, and so much more? --"

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