Not Yo’ Mama’s Poetry: Three Fierce Feminist Poets

Denise Duhamel takes on celebrity, sex, reproduction, and religion in her new poetry collection, Scald. In Magdalene, Marie Howe imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as spiritual, sensual, and searching for meaning in a contemporary landscape. Patricia Smith’s volume, Incendiary Art, confronts the role of witness regarding tyrannies against the black male body and the tenacious grief of mothers.