Ariel K. Moniz (she/her) is a queer Black poetess and…
March has come and gone, but we wanted to celebrate a belated Women’s History Month with you by sharing our favorite pieces by women creators throughout history. We hope that you are having a lovely start to the spring season!
Books
Legendborn – Tracy Deonn
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
The Bloody Chamber – Angela Carter
For the Wolf – Hannah Whitten
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Babel – R.F. Kuang
Bitter Orange – Claire Fuller
Music
Art
Pierce– Nicole Xu
Untitled– Rachelle Baker
Pond Life – Tuesday Riddell
Pencil Houses – Tatiana Khlopkova
Serpent – Camilla Perkins
Poems
Fall, leaves, fall – Emily Brontë
Open Water – Ada Limon
Still I Rise – Maya Angelou
Morning Song – Sylvia Plath
Poetry Collections
Obit– Victoria Chang
Life of the Party– Olivia Gatwood
New and Selected Poems– Mary Oliver
Postcolonial Love Poem– Natalie Diaz
So, Stranger– Topaz Winters
Selected Poems– Anne Sexton
Ariel K. Moniz (she/her) is a queer Black poetess and Hawaii local currently living abroad. She is a co-founder of The Hyacinth Review, and serves as a poetry reader for The Lumiere Review as well as the social media manager for Liminal Transit Review. She is the winner of the 2016 Droste Poetry Award and a Best of the Net nominee. Her writing has found homes with Blood Bath Literary Zine, Sledgehammer Literary Journal, Black Cat Magazine, and Sunday Mornings at the River Press, among others. She holds a B.A in English from the University of Hawaii at Hilo, where she once served as the editor-in-chief of Kanilehua Art & Literary Magazine. You can find her on her website at kissoftheseventhstar.home.blog, on Twitter @kissthe7thstar, on Instagram @kiss.of.the.seventh.star, or staring out to sea.