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By: Leopold (Guest IP 142.229.86.30) on 23-07-2007 07:34

I gotta agree pretty hard with Karl K here. There might be a gender bias in the small press, but at Red Fez I get 9 male submissions to 1 female submission. On the whole, the female submissions are better. I'm guessing part of this may be due to self-doubt, self-criticisms, so the women only send in a poem when they're really sure it's good. I spend a lot of time trying solicit female submissions. Sometimes you ask and ask and they submit nothing. I also have to worry when I reject a woman writer. They're unlikely to ever submit again, which is a shame.    It's easy to point the finger at the old dogma of sexism in the press, but I think gender representation is much more diverse. The reason for the discrepencies isn't just in the hands of the editors and the reads, but also in the hands of the poets who do or do not submit, and the encouragement readers and other poets give to women poets.

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