| Allen, Paula Gunn: |  | Hoop Dance | |
| Angelou, Maya: |  | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Men Refusal On the Pulse of Morning (The Rock Cries Out to Us Today) | Still I Rise Touched By an Angel |
| Atwood, Margaret: |  | Bored In the Secular Night Night Poem Postcards | The Rest Variations on the Word "Sleep" |
| Barbauld, Anna L.: |  | The Caterpillar An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr.Priestley's Study | |
| Belin, Esther: |  | Spirit in Me | |
| Bishop, Elizabeth: |  | At the Fishhouses The Bight In the Waiting Room Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore | |
| Boland, Eavan: |  | Mise Ιire The Oral Tradition | |
| Brooks, Gwendolyn : |  | The Ballad of Rudolph Reed Corners on the Curving Sky The Sonnet Ballad A Sunset Of The City | |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: |  | The First Time How Do I Love Thee If Thou Must Love Me A Musical Instrument | |
| Chasin, Helen: | | Joy Sonnet in a Random Universe | |
| Chudleigh, Mary, Lady: | | To the Ladies | |
| Clampitt, Amy: |  | Beach Glass Fog Stacking the Straw The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews | |
| Clifton, Lucille: |  | Admonitions Good Times Memory Seeker of Visions | There is a Girl Inside the thirty eighth year |
| deSouza, Eunice: |  | Marriages are Made Meeting Poets | |
| Dickinson, Emily: |  | After great pain, a formal feeling comes As imperceptibly as Grief Because I could not stop for Death A Bird came down the Walk A Cemetery The First Day's Night Had Come I felt a Funeral, in my Brain If You Were Coming in the Fall | I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed It was not Death, for I stood up Much Madness is Divinest Sense The Soul has Bandaged moments The Soul Selects Her Own Society There Came a Wind like a Bugle There's a certain slant of Light |
| Doolittle, Hilda ("H.D."): |  | Helen Oread Sheltered Garden | |
| Dove, Rita: |  | The Bistro Styx Golden Oldie My Mother Enters the Work Force Parsley | Rosa Sunday Greens Uncle Millet |
| Endrezze, Anita: |  | Song-Maker This is a Poem About Indians We Came This Way | |
| Fauset, Jessie Redmon: |  | La Vie C'est la Vie Noblesse Oblige | |
| Francisco, Nia: | | Onion and Fried Potatoes | |
| "H.D" | | (See "Doolittle, Hilda") | |
| Hirshfield, Jane: |  | The Poet A Story | |
| Johnson, Emily Pauline: |  | Shadow River When George Was King | |
| Johnson, Georgia Douglas: |  | Autumn Black Woman Love Come and Gone Old Black Men | |
| Joseph, Jenny: |  | Warning | |
| Lazard, Naomi: | | Ordinance On Arrival | |
| Lazarus, Emma: |  | The New Colossus | |
| Levertov, Denise: |  | Contraband In Mind | |
| Lowell, Amy: |  | The Allies A Blockhead The Dinner Party Patterns La Ronde du Diable | |
| Madgett, Naomi Long: |  | Alabama Centennial Midway Phillis | |
| McGinley, Phyllis: |  | A Ballad of Anthologists The Conquerors Daniel at Breakfast Reactionary Essay on Applied Science | |
| Merriam, Eve: |  | How To Eat a Poem Reply to the Question: "How Can You Become a Poet?" | |
| Millay, Edna St.Vincent: |  | Ashes of Life The Buck in the Snow Dirge Without Music God's World Inland I Shall Forget You | I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines Love is not All: It is not Meat nor Drink On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven The Penitent To Jesus On His Birthday What Lips My Lips Have Kissed |
| Moore, Marianne: |  | Poetry Silence Spenser's Ireland | |
| Nichols, Grace: |  | The Body Reclining | |
| Ostriker, Alicia: |  | Everywoman Her Own Theology psalm | |
| Page, P.K.: |  | After Rain On Educating the Natives | |
| Parker, Dorothy: |  | A Certain Lady Comment Epitaph for a Darling Lady One Perfect Rose | Resumé Song of Perfect Propriety Unfortunate Coincidence |
| Plath, Sylvia: |  | Child The Colossus I am Vertical Lady Lazarus Love Letter | The Moon and the Yew Tree Mushrooms Soliloquy of the Solipsist Winter Landscape, With Rocks |
| Pugh, Sheenagh: |  | The Beautiful Lie The Movement of Bodies Stalemate Toast | |
| Robinson, Mary: |  | The Camp January 1795 London's Summer Morning | |
| Tapahonso, Luci: |  | Hard to Take | |
| Teasdale, Sara: |  | Central Park at Dusk The Old Maid Spring in War-Time | |
| Tekahionwake: | | See: E.Pauline Johnson | |
| Trethewey, Natasha: |  | Flounder Storyville Diary | |
| Truth, Sojourner: |  | Ain't I a Woman? | |
| Tso, Agnes: | | Male rain, Female rain, Awakening | |
| Walker, Alice: |  | Burial Expect Nothing I Said to Poetry The Old Men Used to Sing We Alone Can Devalue Gold | |
| Wilcox, Ella Wheeler: |  | Advice Momus, God of Laughter The Optimist The Tavern of Last Times | To Marry or not to Marry? Uncontrolled |
| Wylie, Elinor: |  | Atavism The Eagle and the Mole Ophelia Quarrel | Velvet Shoes Wild Peaches |
| Zepeda, Ofelia: b.1952 |  | Rain We are Papago |