Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.
Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.