[Tim Murphy]

First Things has two new poems of mine, and two weeks ago Chronicles published ten epigrams under the title Multum in Parvo, which I learned here. Yeah, my Latin really is that bad. Chronicles asked me to update my author bio for their obiter dicta. I said "Timothy Murphy has now published 49 poems at Chronicles since 1996, but who's counting?"

One of the First Things poems is a Memorial Day poem for a dead young soldier down the road. It wasn't very well received at The Deep End, and what merit it has is largely due to my quoting the Sullivan/Zohar translation of Psalm 27, one of King David's earliest masterpieces, the theme for the pastor's homily. I hope the poem will give some comfort to military families.

3000 years from now I'd like someone to refer to one of Tim Murphy's earliest masterpieces, but I don't think that's likely.

[Charlotte Innes]

Oh you're too modest, Tim. But I love your sense of humor! Congratulations, this is all great.

Charlotte

[David Rosenthal]

The very picture of modesty. Congrats, Tim.

David R.

[Tim Murphy]

Thank you Charlotte and David. Paul and Jody have been awfully good to me too. First Things has published eighteen Murphy poems, plus a bunch of Sullivan poems and translations. But who's counting?

David is really sui generis. Unify the tribes of Israel as a nation state AND write that well. I shake my head.