Speaking of Poetry Magazine, the blog formerly known as geneva convention has some comments on Goldbarth and W.S. in the recent issue.

A friend of mine, X, at Stanford had a friend who was also a good friend of W.S. This mutual friend had a particular kind of relationship with W.S. DiPiero based on a relationship of equality, two buddies hanging out, and created a totally misleading expectation in X's mind of what DiPiero would really be like. I can't remember if this story is even accurate, it was told to me so long ago.