"I see a vice president that looks like me." "Brown girl brown girl, what do you know," the poem continues. "That there are strong women who want me to grow." Honoré, whose mother is Mexican and ...

In “Lineage,” she reflects on her strong grandmothers and longs ... the ways we overcome again and again. New to poetry? Start here. These women, these poems sustain me. When people ask ...

Strength is often mistakenly linked to invulnerability, but a strong woman challenges this notion by showing that her ...

It features more than 200 women from that region. Her anthology weaves poems, short stories, essays, speeches and more. The contributors live across the Americas and the Caribbean, in Europe and ...

A writer has become the first woman to win a prestigious prize twice after scooping the award with a poem inspired by grief ... where I am today without such a strong community of poets who ...

In March, Serenko was forced to flee Russia for Georgia, where she wrote this prose poem. Yesterday a woman began giving birth directly on the Red Square with an assault rifle pressed to her temple.

While many applaud these depictions as inspirational, particularly for young girls, skepticism has also been raised at the deeper message these “strong” women characters potentially carry.