Certain Quote by Sarah Kay

“POETRY SHAPES MY GENDER.”

— Amy King

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

— Rachel Zucker

There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“just another poem's male / diagnosis dancing the corpses of womenspeaking”

— Carrie Lorig

There were definitely songs in the past that were me dealing with living this gender dysphoria, and sometimes they were really direct and no…

— Laura Jane Grace

I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that…

— Margaret Atwood

Performance poetry is not one genre. Some chant, sing and dance. Some stand rooted to the spot and stare. Some chat their way in…

— Michael Rosen

“I had great femme mentors, I had good role models of gentle men, I found ways to be a butch that did not require…

— S. Bear Bergman

“To be feminine is to allow yourself to be constantly FEELING into the sensual woman you were designed to be.”

— Lebo Grand

“i think any poem worth its salt, if poems can indeed be salty, should allow the reader to think. this poem is of course…

— Anonymous

I think women were just accepted more as songwriters when they sat on a stool with a guitar and had scruffy hair. It was…

— Lisa Stansfield

Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.

— Phoebe Snow