I had a long association with Smith, of course, having gone to Amherst, having married a Smith girl, and having known a good many members of its admirable faculty, people like Daniel Aaron, whom I had known from way back. I felt right at home there, as soon as they took me in and called me, I think, poet in residence or writer in residence, a title which was very dignifying and which also implied that I wasn't carrying a full load of courses. So I did enjoy it there, and of course I especially enjoyed it for selfish reasons of convenience. By the time I moved to Smith College to stay there for 10 years, we had moved house and were living in Cummington, Mass, a half hour's drive from Smith, and it had been a little harder to commute way down to Central Connecticut and teach at Wesleyan.