I have a BA in psychology, but didn't finish graduate school where my major was humanities, a major I much preferred. In poetry, my heroes are Keats, Brooke and Millay. I also like Eliot's Prufrock. In music I like Verdi, Chopin, Joplin, and especially coloratura sopranos who leap to and hit the top note. In painting I like Cezanne, Renoir, Picasso, and I used to like Matisse. In prose I've read and especially liked Isherwood, Wilde, Proust, Coward, Sartre and Murdoch. My poems have rhythm (I hope) and sometimes rhyme. I don't like and don't write what people call free or experimental verse. And I don't think I could write it if I wanted to. It's just an easy way for people with no talent to think they're writing poems. So everybody's doing it. The ultimate democracy.