Poems from the Women's Movement

The Women’s Movement of the 1960s, 70s and 80s generated an extraordinary outpouring of poetry that captured an age of expectancy, of ecstatic possibility, of defiant purpose, and of exuberant exploration. In gathering the best of this poetry, Honor Moore has performed an act of recovery that shows the remarkable range in both form and subject matter of that era’s poetry, including work by Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Muriel Rukeyser, Judy Grahn, and many others.

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Audio

A Change of World, a five-episode series

The Poetry Foundation
In honor of the recent Women's March on Washington, listen to Honor speak in a Poetry Off the Shelf special series on the women's movement. Honor was chief consultant for episodes 1-4. Feast your ears on the whole thing at the Poetry Foundation.

A Change of World, narrated by Meryl Streep

The Poetry Foundation
“By the 1970s women poets were publishing a huge variety of poetry that simply was not imaginable a decade earlier. Yet they still didn’t have mainstream literary approval. When Adrienne Rich won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1974, she accepted on behalf of her fellow nominees Audre Lorde and Alice Walker. This was a watershed moment. As Honor Moore says, ‘It was shocking. Feminism had no standing in the culture. It was courageous in the sense that none of these three poets would ever be accepted or considered in the same way again.’”

Reviews/Press etc.

After Ariel by Boston Review

Women's Review of Books