Every so often, it feels appropriate for our Poetry Friday to receive a visitation from the fearless Emily Dickinson. Especially, perhaps, on Women's Equality Day.

Do women write or want to write “female poetry”?  Jo Shapcott, president of London’s Poetry Society and the author of more than ten books of poems, chaired the society’s panel on The Female Poem recently. In last week’s Guardian, Shapcott offered this exploration of the question and other questions that saunter along beside it. She may not offer answers, but…