Who is your favorite poetess?

Answer 1

I can't pick a 'favorite' woman poet but I can list some favorites I've loved and respected over the years:

A few no longer with us:

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edith Sitwell
Marianne Moore
Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath
Adrienne Rich

A few still very much alive:

Maya Angelou
Meryn Cadell
Nikki Giovanni
Laurie Anderson

Answer 2

Mary Oliver is my all time favorite.

I also like Nikki Giovanni, Alice Walker, June Jordan, Denise Levertov, Jane Kenyon, and Jane Hirschfield. Also Patti Ann Rogers and Nancy Wood.

I just LOVE poetry!!!

Answer 3

Probably Carolyn Forche.

Answer 4

Maya Anglou.....she goes deep and reaches out to people:

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Maya Angelou

Answer 5

I like poems of Adrienne Rich.

Answer 6

living: fleur adcock (though i also rate zaynab al nasser very highly).

all time: sappho.