Jessie Mackay
Jessie Mackay’s crusading spirit informed her poetry, and her poetry is a record of all the causes she held dear.
Jessie Mackay’s crusading spirit informed her poetry, and her poetry is a record of all the causes she held dear.
Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
Irish pianist, composer, and poet
Best known by her pen name Assia Djebar, Fatima-Zohra Imalayen was an Algerian feminist novelist, translator and filmmaker, considered one of North Africa’s most influential writers.
American poet and dramatist
She consorted with the major 20th-century avant-garde movements—Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism, and wrote poems, plays, and experimental prose; created drawings, paintings, sculptures, and assemblages; designed lampshades, toys, Christmas lights, cleaning tools, and corselets.
American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector
Denise Levertov remains an influential poet of the mid-twentieth century American group known as the Black Mountain School.
She acted and wrote plays for Provincetown Theater in Massachusetts; she also became a highly paid journalist. In 1921, she was sent to Paris by McCall’s Magazine to study and write about the expatriate movement. She became friends with famous writers and artists including Mina Loy. She frequently visited Natalie Barney’s salon, to read and discuss literature. It was the environment at Barney’s salon that inspired Barnes to write Ladies Almanack (American Women).
American poet, writer, and visual artist