The poet Anne Waldman, who was one of his students, later reminisced, “I would sit in on Francis Golffing's class on Rilke simply to hear the German read out loud, though I couldn't understand it.”Anne Waldman, Vow to Poetry: Essays, Interviews & Manifestos (Coffee House Press, 2001), p. 26 Among his many students was the illustrator Norman Rockwell, who enrolled as an adult to take a writing class with him in 1952.Deborah Solomon, American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013), p. 444n3
