I wonder what I've been saying - I'd better be careful. It's been a long time since I actively studied poetry: I majored in English in college, just a few short decades ago. I haven't written much poetry; I like it, in general, when I stumble upon it, though I don't usually seek it out. I think that's because poetry requires more time than I have been able to afford to give it. I'm retired now, and hope to spend an increasing amount of time working and playing with language, including reading and writing poetry. I've performed in about a hundred productions as an amateur actor over forty or so years and I think I have a reasonably good ear for language, the one abetting the other.
It's probably fair for me to claim to have "some knowledge," but no real authority beyond having a high opinion of my own opinion!
And I talk too much, especially when I'm late for bed.
Peter
