Poetesses

Not as many panels of interest this year, and there was the exhaustion factor - but hanging out with a troupe of lovely singing poetesses all weekend was totally worth it. ❋ Enderfem (2009)

Thaler took poetry industry analysts by surprise, winning the competition with a single couplet and upsetting several gloomy competing poetesses who had written longer works. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

The obvious choices here are Sylvia Plath or Anne Sexton, two confessional poetesses who committed suicide. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

Boston may no longer be the Hub of the Universe, but its Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area remains the undisputed capital of America in at least one respect — home of suicidal poetesses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

  But there's no reasoning with a woman who self-aestheticizes — if that's a word — in the hope that it will make her stand out in the crowded field of disturbed young poetesses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“Meydlekh, Froyen, Vayber — Yidishe Dikhterins” [Girls, women, wives — Yiddish poetesses]. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When Kadya Molodowsky turned to the question of women poets, she echoed parts of her earlier argument with Ravitsh and wrote a sarcastic dismissal of the very concept of “women poetesses.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Many film actors and actresses as well as poets and poetesses have also taken party in the gherao rallies organized by the Maoist party. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This Keralite is recognized as one of the foremost poetesses of India. ❋ Rus Bowden (2009)

Andal Thiruppavai (a 10th century Tamil poetess), Akka Mahadevi (a 12th century Kannad poetess), Janabai (a 13th century Marathi poetess), Meera Bai of 16th century in Hindi and Madhavi Dasi in that century in Oriya literature were some poetesses who wrote exquisite poetry that has been passed on through bards and singers throughout India. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In 1927, Melekh Ravitsh published an article whose critical stance can be discerned in its title: “Meydlekh, Froyen, Vayber — Yidishe Dikhterins” [Girls, women, wives — Yiddish poetesses]. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Grin divided his entries by country, including the biographies of twenty-seven women under the heading “American Yiddish poetesses.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

You might take voicers and make them go on text, and they'd still have more trust because they are 14-year-old gamer boyz and not 45-year-old lesbian poetesses or something. ❋ Unknown (2007)

During this night he hummed airs in bed, thought he would do for the ballad of the fair poetess what other musicians had done for the ballads of other fair poetesses, and dreamed that she smiled on him as her prototype ❋ Unknown (2006)

She was beautiful, reckless, one of the poetesses whose poetry Richard feared and wondered over. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It struck me that this fountain, with its spray and small pool of water, would be an advantageous spot for romantic assignations if one could lure poetesses there late at night. ❋ Jonathan Ames (2004)

Or one of those melancholy women who are would-be Gothic poetesses. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)

It was probably not correct to call them poetesses and sculptresses, although this is how Wallingford thought of them. ❋ Irving, John, 1942- (2001)

[9] Even so, Browning lamented the absence of appropriate role models: England has had many learned women ... and yet where are the poetesses? ... ❋ Unknown (1993)