I have sketched out in my Little Garden of Recorded Verse a course and an anthology that I hope can serve as a model for teacher or student who wishes to learn the craft of poetic recitation. Unfortunately it has a certain glaring weakness. These poems were chiefly chosen as personal favorites. Verse being the personal expression of one's self, be it the writer's or the reciter's self, such a collection can almost not fail to reflect the sexuality of the compiler.
I think that this is rather unfortunate but I also think it is something that cannot be denied. If students and teachers are themselves to build personal collections of verse and consciously develop personal renditions it is pretty inevitable that these collections are going to reflect the reciter's sexuality. Verse is a personal thing and sexuality is a very important aspect of any person's being. Thus it becomes rather vital for the sake of female teachers and students that anthologies be formed that are fit more to their liking. Of course there are many verse that omit an explicit sense of sexual identity, Keats' To Autumn comes quickly to mind, and I'm sure there's many others, yet it would seem a contrivance to advance a unisexual, or asexual, anthology that might be used by all, although such a collection would have a value in fulfilling the need for teachers of one sex to have material that can be presented to and modeled for students of the opposite sex.