Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Women have been given reason to recognize a lot of things that have been covered up for a long time. What preceded the rage was a lot of anxiety.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.

But now that I’m scrubbing
toilets on my hands & knees,
with four degrees,
I realize that one escape route
leads to another