[Eva Salzman]

Thanks for that very thoughtful posting and the Olsen, and for putting this issue precisely in the context where in belongs, and among issues of great importance to me.

I have very mixed feelings about journals dedicated to enclaves, except if I start to think that within the poetry world, there are likewise enclaves pertaining to different schools and theories, with these like any other. (And yet am tired myself of being included largely in women's anthologies, even though i don't write exclusively nor hardly ever on women's issues! Or is it because I care about and address these issues! one has to wonder!)

I grappled with such issues editing WW, and indeed addressed the fact that I did, and so did others, while some, rather than giving due consideration to matter either stated the familiar argument that, well, those poets might just be better (an offense I HAD to address!) or that it's a made-up problem, which invalidation of those of us with long experience in such matters, is itself part of the problem.