I support all poets' freedom to create without imposing my personal aesthetic rules on their activity. As an editor, I have no poetry biases to restrict a poet's use of any creative form. I do accept the traditional poem as well as the experimental form. Yes, moose and deer cross the road 75 yards from my house every morning. As the paper mill has downsized, this small town has slid into an economic depression.
Some people are good human beings in the middle of the usual small town gossiping and backbiting.
This small town is the internet literary center of Maine where some very good human beings live, but Sinclair Lewis' American Dream is alive and well. Tom Fallon is a human being who writes. I am a real, fallible, human being. I walk and lift weights for my health and try to take care of my diet. There's a white-haired gorilla just behind my head.