The applicant / Sylvia Plath --
The father of my country / Diane Wakoski --
Kã̈the Kollwitz ; Not to be printed, not to said, not to be thought / Muriel Rukeyser --
Planetarium ; Diving into the wreck ; Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev / Adrienne Rich --
The ballad of the lonely masturbator / Anne Sexton --
The anniversary / Alicia Ostriker --
personal letter #2 ; a poem for my father / Sonia Sanchez --
Miscarriage ; 10 commandments for liberation ; Euridice / Alta --
miss rosie ; the lost baby poem / Lucille Clifton --
At the end of the affair / Maxine Kumin --
O'Keeffe retrospective / May Swenson --
Why I died / Erica Jong --
Sappho's reply / Rita Mae Brown --
I like to think of Harriet Tubman ; Three poems for women ; An answer to a man's question, "What can I do about women's liberation?" / Susan Griffin --
Quotations from charwoman me ; Matrilineal descent / Robin Morgan --
Objets d'Art / Cynthia MacDonald --
For my sister Molly who in the fifties / Alice Walker --
"You say I am mysterious" / Elsa Gidlow --
The nuisance ; Rape poem / Marge Piercy --
For Willyce / Pat Parker --
Death camp ; They did not build wings for them / Irena Klepfisz --
Susan's photograph / Jean Valentine --
Eat rice have faith in women ; Yesterday / Fran Winant --
A woman is talking to death / Judy Grahn --
Annunciation / Diane Di Prima --
The history of my feeling / Kathleen Fraser --
Semele recycled / Carolyn Kizer --
Gesture / Beverly Dahlen --
To my daughter the junkie on a train ; A litany for survival ; A poem for women in rage / Audre Lorde --
Elegy / Marilyn Hacker --
Poem: on declining values ; Roman poem number six ; Case in point / June Jordan --
Living alone (I) ; LIving alone (II) ; Epilogue / Denise Levertov --
Rhyme of my inheritance ; Song ; Some unsaid things / Joan Larkin --
Pomegranate ; Dedication to hunger / Louise Glũ̈ck --
Eve of Easter / Bernadette Mayer --
Polemic #1 ; First time: 1950 / Honor Moore --
"i am a woman in ice" / Martha Courtot --
After touch / Jan Clausen --
Lady tactics / Anne Waldman --
Caritas / Olga Broumas --
Burning the tomato worms / Carolyn Forché --
A California girlhood ; The goddess who created this passing world / Alice Notley --
"She had ruby red lacquer on her fingernails" ; "Wanting you " ; Honesty / Maureen Owen --
Don't cheapen yourself / Jana Harris --
Anti-short story ; Tone / Rae Armantrout --
The nursery / Fanny Howe --
In knowledge of young boys / Toi Derricotte --
Women's work / Michelle Cliff --
Nessie / Rachel Blau DuPlessis --
Many junipers, heartbeats ; Under the Zanzariere / Jane Miller --
Satan says / Sharon Olds --
Coral Sea, 1945 / Carol Muske-Dukes --
Among women / Marie Ponsot --
She lays / Molly Peacock --
Metaphors of women / Katha Pollitt --
The green notebook / Jane Cooper --
San Sepolcro / Jorie Graham --
Unleashed ; Joan / Eileen Myles.