Shaun--
Of course the forum has an agenda! That's kind of the point of it. And the question of women's underrepresentation in poetry journals is quite real--and from what I've seen, the agenda of what is a fledgling board is not anti-male, though some comments have been understandably indignant at some of the remarks made here.
Frankly, I organize a reading series with a woman, have a woman for a publisher, and edit a magazine with a woman, so the question of why women aren't getting the same exposure as male poets strikes me as an important one. The causality may be a complex question, but there has been a tendency to treat the topic as unworthy of serious discussion here on the part of a few posters, with a sort of "I see no color" justification for it. And, sorry, the numbers I posted indicate that only about a quarter of the Raintown's submissions come from women. Rather curious, don't you think? And given that, according to the editorial tastes of the editors, the women and men seem to be publishable in roughly equal qualities (with a statistically slight advantage to the women, actually), that it might not be due to inherent disparities between men and women, but rather (dare I say it?) social in origin?
Quincy
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