{"podcast":{"title":"POETICS: Poetry Podcast","slug":"poetics-poetry-podcast-7109691","podcast_index_feed_id":7109691,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/3001310.rss","website_url":"https://bainbridgeislandpress.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3001310/063f0c4321c7a378532602a6c7187955.jpg","author":"Bainbridge Island Press 10-Minute Poetry Podcast","episode_count":48,"summary":"Dedicated to publishing high-quality poetry journals, and anthologies. Located on beautiful Bainbridge Island in the Puget Sound, we have made it our mission to connect great readers with great poetry.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T08:18:24.100355+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/poetics-poetry-podcast-7109691"},"episode":{"title":"POETICS Podcast: Who Gets to Be a Poet: Beating the Gatekeeping Horse to Death","slug":"poetics-podcast-who-gets-to-be-a-poet-beating-the-gatekeeping-horse-to-death","published_at":"2025-09-17T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/poetics-poetry-podcast-7109691/poetics-podcast-who-gets-to-be-a-poet-beating-the-gatekeeping-horse-to-death","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/poetics-poetry-podcast-7109691","url":"https://bainbridgeislandpress.substack.com/p/poetics-podcast-who-gets-to-be-a","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/172967373/8e850d885d51a112738b94c5a3380517.mp3","summary":"We love to celebrate literary rebels like John Keats and Emily Dickinson, but here's the thing—when they were actually being rebellious, critics hated them. Keats got trashed for being a working-class 'cockney poet' while the aristocrats got all the praise, and Dickinson's wild punctuation and syntax? Her first editors basically sanitized all the weirdness out of it to make it 'acceptable.' Turns out we're pretty good at loving rebels—as long as we get to smooth out all the rough edges first. Sound familiar? Welcome to the dead horse we keep beating: gatekeeping. Get full access to Bainbridge Island Press at bainbridgeislandpress.substack.com/subscribe","meta_description":"We love to celebrate literary rebels like John Keats and Emily Dickinson, but here's the thing—when they were actually being rebellious, critics hated the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1907,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/poetics-poetry-podcast-7109691/episodes/poetics-podcast-who-gets-to-be-a-poet-beating-the-gatekeeping-horse-to-death/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/poetics-poetry-podcast-7109691/poetics-podcast-who-gets-to-be-a-poet-beating-the-gatekeeping-horse-to-death.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}