Afterward, the G.I Bill got him to Harvard, where he began as a music major but switched to English, started writing poetry, and met poets John Ashbery and V.R. Lang.

之后，G.I Bill让他进入哈佛大学，在那里他开始主修音乐，但转向英语，开始写诗，并遇到了诗人John Ashbery和V.R. Lang。