Her 6th book of poems, Under Construction (Foothills Publishing, 2016) is dedicated to Andrew Glaze, Poet Laureate of Alabania, and a life-long friend, she first met in 1948 at the Breadloaf Writers Conference. She worked at the University of Rochester for 20 years as one of the editors of an edition of Emerson's notebooks and journals, including The Poetry Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson. She was also one of the editors of Judith Kitchen's State Street Press, along with Bruce Bennet and Stan Sanvel Rubin. She taught Creative Writing/Poetry at the University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music, St John Fisher College, and Writers and Books for many years, and still marvels at the poems of her students who are still in touch.