"The prevailing climate of poetics"?
The author's statistics are noted, but it seems to me that there are no lack of women poets. I pick up Poetry, Contemporary Poetry, Poets and Writers or any other number of publications, and find women publishing books, winning prizes, publishing poems, editing journals, judging contests. In fact, in some of the listings of prize-winners in Poets and Writers (which includes photographs of the winners), you'll be surprised to see a male face in the crowd.
I wonder if the statistics are selective. I wonder if the author of this article has looked broadly enough at her area of study because it does not seem to me that there is this sort of "prevailing climate" (of exclusion of women) in the world of poetry.
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