I suppose because some differences--between formal and free verse, for example--are real and others are supposititious. When you know a poet is black (or white) (or puce), you know nothing whatsoever about the poem before you. After arguing that gender should be irrelevant in the marketplace--aesthetic as well as financial--an argument that special seating should be reserved for women (or men) seems designed to thwart its own purposes.
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