Thank you Rhina for encouraging me to brag ...eh,uh, to 'spread the joy'! This has been a banner month for me.
First, I got a blank verse poem about my late father accepted at The Lyric; and this acceptance came the day after Christmas, with a warm hand-written note from the editor, Jean Mellichamp Milliken! (Needless to say,I am pleased to have my father remembered in this way, in verse, and by the likes of this journal!) Then, just a few days ago, I got two more poems accepted in Iambs & Trochees -
a quatrain, in iambic tetrameter, and a triolet. So, right now, I am feeling pretty puffed up with some old fashioned pride and joy. And I owe you, Rhina, a great debt of gratitude for all the time and effort you've given me, in your critiques as well as your encouragement to send my father's poem back to Jean.
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