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!
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
We control the content of our dreams.