Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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.
I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.
The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.
I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.