Introduction / Molly McQuade -- "It's a woman's prerogative to change her mind" / Elizabeth Macklin -- Vesuvius at home : the power of Emily Dickinson / Adrienne Rich -- The difficult miracle of Black poetry in America, or, Something like a sonnet for Phillis Wheatley / June Jordan -- Being a dragon : on Marianne Moore / Cynthia Zarin -- My Plath problem / April Bernard -- "Either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation" / Rita Dove -- Edwin Muir and the primal world / Mary Kinzie -- A meditation on metaphor / Alicia Ostriker -- Some notes on silence / Jorie Graham -- A cadenced privacy / Brenda Hillman -- Use this word in a sentence : experimental / Ann Lauterbach -- Myself a kangaroo among beauties / Lucie Brock-broido -- A genuine article / Heather McHugh -- Confessions of a postmodern poetess / Annie Finch -- Playing the changes / Eleanor Wilner -- La Faustienne / Lyn Hejinian -- Xio's soakbook : criticism takes a bath / S.X. Rosenstock -- Against decoration / Mary Karr -- Poetry, mattering? / Susan Wheeler -- Letter to a young woman poet / Eavan Boland -- A student's memoir of Muriel Rukeyser / Sharon Olds -- Poetry is not a luxury / Audre Lorde -- Meditations on "Mecca" : Gwendolyn Brooks and the responsibilities of the Black poet / Elizabeth Alexander -- 69 hidebound opinions, propositions, and several asides from a manila folder concerning the stuff of poetry / C.D. Wright -- Short survey of scruples / Molly McQuade -- On being unable to read / Valerie Cornell.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.