My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s and he's very much for women's rights.
There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women...
I don't think balance is something you get from someone else it's something...
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems I would suggest you do two things: first while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.