I certainly spend a lot of money each year on poetry books, not to mention significant manhours on at least a biweekly basis reading most semi-popular literary magazines that are hosted online. I don't have the impression that you do of prevalence of female poets over men.

I guess I'll take this time to point out that Agni and the New Yorker have always published poetry. Fuck, Dorothy Parker helped make the New Yorker what it is.

However, there's no real way to prove our perceptions one way or another without extensive, and ultimately not-really-that-rewarding, data mining. My time is better spent.

At the risk of sounding like a snob, though, as a decently published poet applying to MFA programs this year who has managed to establish herself in a friendly crowd of similarly passionate poetry-writing individuals, I think there might be more breadth and depth to the trends I believe I see in the poetry world. I do edit a literary magazine to boot.

I certainly do not believe that women represent an overwhelming majority, or "most," of current poetry book publications. But listing all the male poets currently publishing that I can off the top of my head really isn't valid evidence of that - so like I said, we can agree to disagree, but I'm gonna say I got a bit more in the way of current credentials.

Also, 6/21 is more than a third. I mean, six is a small number. But so is 21. I don't know, it feels like saying that $.77 on every dollar isn't that big of a difference. Shit adds up, mang.