This month is Women’s History Month and today is International Women’s Day – that’s 2 ways to celebrate women today! Starting today through the end of March, I will begin sharing a daily female poet from history along with 2 poems they have written.
While this is a fun way to celebrate women, I am also using it as an opportunity to educate myself more on the history and people of poetry. A few friends have already said they want to join this educational endeavor, so the invitation stands for others as well! Even if poetry is a foreign language to you, this is also meant to be a way to learn history behind a form of art.
So that’s 2 things you can get out of it – history and art!
Each day’s poet and her poems will be shared via A Common Thread for easy access and reading. For the first day, I chose a poet who influenced both Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe: Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
The Poetry Foundation has an article full of historical information and inspiration for Browning. You can read it in full here.
The first poem I chose for Browning is “Lady Geraldine’s Courtship” which influenced Edgar Allan Poe’s meter in “The Raven.”
You can read the poem here.
The second poem is “Casa Guidi Windows” and addresses Italian politics of the time.
You can read it in full here. (This link also has many of her other poems.)
Photo from Poetry Foundation.
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