Someone else complains about the Guardians of the SoCal Poetry/Literary Galaxy.

Here's Chiwan Choi in CULTURAL WEEKLY:
http://www.culturalweekly.com/whiteness-isnt-intellectualism-whiteness-isnt-indigenous-whiteness-isnt-anything/#.WEsyaExV32Q.twitter

Guessing a lot of the people Mr. Choi writes about will deny that race enters into decisions to hand out gilded passwords to the exclusive club.  But, at the very least, they have notions of class and their version of decorum as ways to limit the diversity of literary voices.