Discouraged from writing "bold" poems by a spouse who was her friend before being a husband, feminist Urdu poet Kishwar Naheed stated, "Creativity cannot be regulated nor should it be," in an interview to a Pakistani magazine. She decided then, to keep her work away from his sight, and so, he got to read it at the same time the rest of the world did — when it was published.

Feminist poetry, as a movement, came to be in the 1960s, and it has grown all over the world by leaps and bounds ever since. A six-day event starting today aims to be another platform to spread the discourse. Titled Feminist Poetry Festival, it has been curated by Kena Shree, poet and blogger, Sushruti Tripathi, poet and creative consultant, Saumya Kulshreshtha, founder of Delhi Poets Collective, Foram Shah, founder of Spill Poetry, and Shaili Chopra, founder of SheThePeople.