Before there were hashtags, there were verses. Before there were marches, there were metaphors. Long before the phrase “spoken word” became a movement, there were revolutionary voices who carved truth into the flesh of language. Poetry has never been passive. It breathes, it shouts, it refuses to back down. It is a revolutionary act

Poetry isn’t just something pretty on the page. It’s survival. It’s resistance. It’s a lifeline stretched across centuries, connecting women who dared to speak when the world told them to be silent. Long before microphones, book deals, or viral quotes, women poets were putting truth to paper in the only ways they could, sometimes in