tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11262289.post113777949178132425..comments2024-01-31T10:38:51.039-08:00Comments on dulcetly...notes on a bookish life: the necessity of a feminist press, pt. 2kristy bowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03831806047965186923noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11262289.post-1137885147053211422006-01-21T15:12:00.000-08:002006-01-21T15:12:00.000-08:00I don't have a particular gender of reader in mind...I don't have a particular gender of reader in mind when I write my poems. I'm not writing them and thinking "This one is for all the women out there." I'm not sure I even like the idea of "women's poetry," or a "woman poet." How about just "Poetry" and "Poet?" Because that is what it all boils down to - not who wrote the poem, but what the poem is. So what if the poem has a largely female audience or a largely male audience, or an audience that is equally male and female? Who keeps such cribsheets? <BR/><BR/>BTW, have missed you and am sorry I have been away from your blog. Glad to be back.Jenny Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02689476109430471814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11262289.post-1137796328355099462006-01-20T14:32:00.000-08:002006-01-20T14:32:00.000-08:00Kristy - Bravo for speaking up on an issue I too h...Kristy - Bravo for speaking up on an issue I too have been mulling about in my brain since reading that piece in Poetry - the idea that men would not be interested in "women's experiences," particularly. I think my ideal reader, the reader I probably have in my mind when I write, is female, but a lot of the people who have responded personally and passionately to my poems, which are pretty frankly about women's experiences and feminist, have been male.Jeanninehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419593830749483323noreply@blogger.com