If you are a poem lover, there is great possibility that you know few women poets, which is not your fault but less public report of them than male ones. Here are two great figures.
Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the most influential and widely read 20th-century American poets. The author of more than 20 books, she was highly regarded even during her lifetime and had the distinction of being the first Black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also the first Black woman to hold the role of Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now referred to as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, and served as the Illinois poet laureate for 32 years. Her body of work gave her, according to critic George E. Kent, “a unique position in American letters. Not only has she combined a strong commitment to racial identity and equality with a mastery of poetic techniques, but she has also managed to bridge the gap between the academic poets of her generation in the 1940s and the young Black militant writers of the 1960s.”
Annie Finch is a poet, translator, cultural critic, and performance artist. She is the author of seven volumes of poetry, including Earth Days: Poems, Chants, and Spellsin Five Directions (Nirala Publications, 2023); Eve (Story Line Press, 1997) and Calendars (Tupelo Press, 2003), both finalists for the National Poetry Series; Spells: New and Selected Poems and The Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells (2019) from Wesleyan University Press; and the verse play Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams (Red Hen Press, 2010), winner of the Saraswati Award. Finch’s work has appeared in The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2011) and The Norton Anthology of World Literature and has been translated into eight languages.
【小题1】According to the author, women poets are less known because of ________.| A．their lower productivity | B．the lack of exposure in the media |
| C．their poor social status | D．the gender inequality |
| A．Her commitment to poet writing. | B．Being the first black winner of the Pulitzer Prize |
| C．Her great poetic techniques | D．Her contributions to many aspects besides writing. |
| A．Annie Finch is a successful poet because she wrote more than others. |
| B．Annie Finch is a productive poet because she could do other jobs. |
| C．Annie Finch is an ambitious poet because she did more than writing. |
| D．Annie Finch is a super poet because she had many poems public. |
