Letters

Separate is Not Equal

Don't you realize that by writing of women's words, by separating women's writings from men's, you are participating in the either/or dichotomy you decry? This is tantamount to the horrid "separate-but-equal" doctrine of our own country's story. Female-ness does not have to be central to each and every woman's identity in order to qualify her as a woman poet - she is what she is: one who writes, who thinks, who feels, who plays, and who, incidentally, has a vagina. The vagina does not make the writing, any more than the hair or the eyes or the intestines do.

Naomi Gurt

ANN ARBOR, MI