No more masks! : an anthology of twentieth-century American women poets / edited with an introduction by Florence Howe.

pt. 1. ... we're a queer lot We women who write poetry / Amy Lowell
Lola Ridge, 1873-1941. from The Ghetto 1918. The Dream 1920. Amy Lowell 1927
Amy Lowell, 1874-1925. The Garden by Moonlight 1919. Interlude 1919. Autumn 1919. The Sisters 1925
Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946. from Patriarchal Poetry 1927
Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson, 1875-1935. I Sit and Sew 1920. To Madame Curie 1921. The Proletariat Speaks 1929
Angelina Weld Grimke, 1880-1958. Caprichosa 1901. The Garden Seat n.d. At April n.d
Anne Spencer, 1882-1975. Lady, Lady 1925. Creed 1927. Letter to My Sister 1927. 1975 1974
Sara Teasdale, 1884-1933. The Kiss 1910. The Wind 1914. I Might Have Sung of the World 1919. Water Lilies 1920. Hide and Seek 1922
Elinor Wylie, 1885-1928. Let No Charitable Hope 1928. Little Eclogue 1932
H.D. [Hilda Doolittle], 1886-1961. Sheltered Garden 1916. from Eurydice 1917; 1925. Helen 1924
Hazel Hall, 1886-1924. Instruction 1921. Walkers at Dusk 1923. For a Broken Needle 1928
Georgia Douglas Johnson, 1886-1966. The Heart of a Woman 1927. Old Black Men 1927. When I Am Dead 1927
Marianne Moore, 1887-1972. Marriage 1923. O To Be A Dragon 1959
Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-1950. from Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree 1923. Menses 1928; 1939. Rendezvous 1939. An Ancient Gesture 1949
Genevieve Taggard, 1894-1948. With Child 1921. At Last the Women Are Moving 1935. No Abstraction 1941. To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade 1941. Demeter 1945
Louise Bogan, 1897-1970. Medusa 1923. The Crows 1923. Women 1923. Betrothed 1923. Masked Woman's Song 1967
Kay Boyle, 1903-1992. A Communication to Nancy Cunard 1937. The Invitation in It, from American Citizen 1944. For James Baldwin 1970. For Marianne Moore's birthday 1970. A Poem for February First 1975 1986; 1990. A Poem on Getting Up Early in the Morning (Or Even Late in the Morning), When One Is Old 1990
Lorine Niedecker, 1903-1970. In the Great Snowfall Before the Bomb 1961. Nursery Rhyme 1962. Grandfather 1968. I Married 1976. Margaret Fuller 1976. So He Said 1976
Phyllis McGinley, 1905-1978. Why, Some of My Best Friends Are Women 1932. The 5:32 1932
Josephine Jacobson, 1908-. When the Five Prominent Poets 1967. Food 1981. The Sisters 1987. The Motion 1987
Jean Garrigue, 1912-1972. Upon the Intimation of Love's Mortality 1964. On the Legends of a Dancer 1964. Written in London After a Protest Parade 1967
Muriel Rukeyser, 1913-1980. More of a Corpse Than a Woman 1935. Night Feeding 1935. Poem Out of Childhood 1936. The Conjugation of the Paramecium 1968. Kathe Kollwitz 1971. Despisals 1973. To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century 1973. For Kay Boyle 1974. Resurrection of the Right Side 1974
Ruth Stone, 1915-. In an Iridescent Time 1959. Advice 1970. How to Catch Aunt Harriette 1987. Pokeberries 1987. Father's Day 1991
Margaret Walker, 1915-. Molly Means 1942. Lineage 1942. For Gwen, 1969 1969
Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-. The Mother 1944. Jessie Mitchell's Mother 1950. To Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals 1987
Naomi Replansky, 1918-. Housing Shortage 1952. Two Women 1952. I Met My Solitude 1988
May Swenson, 1919-1989. A Dream 1954. The Centaur 1956. Women 1968. Feel Me 1968. In the Bodies of Words 1979; 1987. In Love Made Visible 1991
pt. 2. The Will to Change / Adrienne Rich
Amy Clampitt, 1920-. The Burning Child 1985. Written in Water 1986. Medusa 1987. Amherst 1987; 1990
Maude Meehan, 1920-. Is There Life After Feminism 1985. Gift for My Mother's 90th Birthday 1991
Marie Ponsot, 1921-. Among Women 1981. Residual Paralysis 1981. "Love Is Not Love" 1988
Mona Van Duyn, 1921-. Leda 1964. Leda Reconsidered 1964. The Stream 1982. Late Loving 1992
Grace Paley, 1922-. The Women in Vietnam 1973. The Sad Children's Song 1985. On Mother's Day 1985. In Aix 1989
Shirley Kaufman, 1923-. Mothers, Daughters 1969. Apples 1970. Deja Vu 1984. Notes to My Daughters 1993
Denise Levertov, 1923-. To the Snake 1958. Hypocrite Women 1962. In Mind 1962. Stepping Westward 1966. Life at War 1968. An Embroidery (I) 1971. A Woman Alone 1978. The Long Way Round 1978
Julia Randall, 1923-. To William Wordsworth from Virginia 1961. Recipes 1987. A Valediction 1987
Mitsuye Yamada, 1923-. Homecoming 1976. The Night Before Good-Bye 1976. The Club 1989
Jane Cooper, 1924-. The Knowledge That Comes Through Experience 1950; 1973. Waiting 1971. Hotel De Dream 1990
Vassar Miller, 1924-. Spinster's Lullaby 1960. Trimming the Sails 1960. On Approaching My Birthday 1968. Subterfuge 1981. Prayer to My Muse 1981. A Mourning 1991
Carolyn Kizer, 1925-. Hera, Hung from the Sky 1961. From Pro Femina 1965. Bitch 1984. The Blessing 1984
Maxine Kumin, 1925-. A Voice from the Roses 1961. After Love 1970. Louise Bourgeois Exhibit 1985. The Chain 1985. Credo 1992. The Rendezvous 1992
Anne Halley, 1928-. Housewife's Letter: to Mary 1965. Against Dark's Harm 1965. I'd Rather See Than Be One, But 1979
Cynthia Macdonald, 1928-. Instruction from Bly 1973. Objets d'Art 1973. Inheritance 1976
Anne Sexton, 1928-1974. Housewife 1961. The Abortion 1961. Consorting with Angels 1966. For My Lover, Returning to His Wife 1967
Adrienne Rich, 1929-. Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law 1963. Women 1969. Hunger 1974-1975. (The Floating Poem) from Twenty-One Love Poems 1974-1976. Frame 1980. XIII (Dedications) from An Atlas of the Difficult World 1990-1991
Patricia Goedicke, 1931-. In the Ocean 1980. In the Waiting Room 1980. Lucky 1986. Without Looking 1992
Colette Inez, 1931-. The Woman Who Loved Worms 1969. Warrior Daughters 1983. Absolving You 1988
Linda Pastan, 1932-. Notes from the Delivery Room 1971. After Reading Nelly Sachs 1971. Passover 1971. Duet for One Voice 1985
Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963. The Disquieting Muses 1959. Candles 1960. Daddy 1963. Wintering 1963
Anne Stevenson, 1993-. The Suburb 1964. Poem to My Daughter 1982
Diane Di Prima, 1934-. The Quarrel 1961. April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa 1975. Narrow Path Into the Back Country 1975. Poem in Praise of My Husband 1990
Audre Lorde, 1934-1992. The Woman Thing 1970. Hanging Fire 1978. Sisters in Arms 1986
Sonia Sanchez, 1934-. Poem at Thirty 1968. A Poem for My Most Intelligent 10:30 AM Class/Fall 1985 1987. A Poem for My Brother 1987
Jean Valentine, 1934-. First Love 1965. The Forgiveness Dream: Man from the Warsaw Ghetto 1979. Snow Landscape, in a Glass Globe 1989. My Mother's Body, My Professor, My Bower 1992. X 1992
Nellie Wong, 1934-. Relining Shelves 1977. Toward a 44th Birthday 1984
Colleen McElroy, 1935-. Gra'ma 1972. In My Mother's Room 1984. This Is the Poem I Never Meant to Write 1984. Queen of the Ebony Isles 1984. Foul Line
1987 1990
Lucille Clifton, 1936-. Miss Rosie 1969. Admonitions 1969. The Way It Was 1972. Turning 1974. The Thirty-eighth Year 1974. The Coming of Kali 1974. There Is a Girl Inside 1980. To My Friend, Jerina 1991. Wishes for Sons 1991
Jayne Cortez, 1936-. Rape 1982. Stockpiling 1984
June Jordan, 1936-. What Would I Do White? 1967. If You Saw a Negro Lady 1970. Case in Point 1980. Poem About My Rights 1980. 1977: Poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer 1980. Some People 1989. The Female and the Silence of a Man 1989
Marge Piercy, 1936-. Noon of the Sunbather 1963. The Friend 1964. The Woman in the 1971. Homage to Lucille, Dr. Lord-Heinstein 1985. Something to Look Forward To 1988. The Book of Ruth and Naomi 1992
Alicia Ostriker, 1937-. Propaganda Poem: Maybe for Some Young Mamas 1975-1979. The Exchange 1984
Diane Wakoski, 1937-. Justice Is Reason Enough 1958. The Realization of Difference 1966. Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons 1970. The Girls 1986. Moneylight 1991
Eleanor Wilner, 1937-. Emigration 1984. Coda, Overture 1989. Sarah's Choice 1989
Wanda Coleman, 1938-. Women of My Color 1979. Dear Mama (2) 1983
Paula Gunn Allen, 1939-. Night Vision 1982. Los Angeles, 1980 1982. Eve the Fox 1989
pt. 3. Loving in the War Years / Cherrie Moraga
Lorna Dee Cervantes, 1940-. Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway 1981.