I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.
Many of my poems are not sexual.
When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!