[Julie Steiner]

A couple of considerations:

Some formal-friendly editors lurk here, and may see something firsthand even if it's not "googleable".

A poem workshopped here may actually have more eyeballs pass over it than a poem published in a small-circulation poetry journal.

The gender gap in poetry publishing has many causes, not all of which have anything to do with editors or their policies; but it's been noted on many occasions that female poets (as a group) tend to be much more hesitant than men (as a group) to ignore rules such as "no simultaneous submissions", "no poems previously posted anywhere online, however briefly", etc.

I understand that publishers want to surprise their readership with new and unique content; but it would be nice if they could balance the desire to print a "scoop" with the desire to print high-quality work. And workshopping, when done right, tends to increase quality. As a reader, I'd rather have another chance to appreciate a really fine poem, even if I've seen a previous draft of it, than read a merely good poem that I've never seen before.