Boyhood in woods on northwest margin of Fort Wayne IN.  Excellent high school education at FW North.  Painful, of course.  Miami of OH and Indiana U.  Doctoral spec. in American poetry.  Glorious teaching at IU, GW in DC, but mostly at BSU back in IN.   American poetry, creative writing.  Initiated and directed BSU Creative Writing Program. Founded Barnwood imprint in 1975; incorporated as 501(c)3 with poets Thom Tammaro, Sheila Coghill, Michael Tate in 1978.  Retired to write, edit, paint, and study italiano, et francais, in Seattle where lots of kids/grandkids live.