It is very possible that Mark Strand had a run-in with Cynthia Plaster Caster

Peep this feature on Mark Strand in Austin's "daily digital magazine" CultureMap . The piece mostly details a Michener Center sponsored reading that Strand gave, but there are moments of conversation, including this gem:

Before reading his final few poems, Strand checked his wristwatch. “Back in the 60s,” he told us, “poets would read for two to three hours…there was never such a display of self-love. Not only that, sometimes they would say, 'Let me read that one again…so you can really hear it.'”

We all laughed; obviously, the current poetry scene is far different then the one Strand came into prominence to in the 1960s, which as he once told an interviewer for the Poetry Foundation, was really a swingin’ time to be writing in verse. Or something like that.

“Groupies were a big part of the scene,” he said. “Poets were underground pop stars, and when we made the campus circuit, girls would flock around. It wasn’t bad. I rather liked the uncertainties of my life then.”