First Woman to Have Poems Published in the Americas. Anne Bradstreet

 

1.       1650 - According to the Poetry Foundation Anne Bradstreet was the first woman to have her poems published in the Americas. Her most celebrated volumes, “The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America” was published in 1650. Born in England around 1612, she died in 1672 in Massachusetts.

This is an excerpt from the book, "Women's History: Trivia, Firsts, & Musings by Paula C. Henderson https://amzn.to/3C2WWN2