Commonweal

Tim Murphy · #1 05-09-2017, 10:45 AM

My Committee of Four Close Readers thinks this is my best periodical publication: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/p...-all-night-ode

Commonweal told me they were so backed up it would have to wait till late 2018, yet here it is. Four of the five sonnets came in dream last fall, three in meter and rhyme which I can recall verbatim, the title poem in such vivid images it took minutes to compose. Micah Mattix who is reviewing Devotions linked it this morning at The Weekly Standard.

Presences, a Journal of Catholic Poetry just sent their debut issue. The editor reprinted Gioia's intro to Devotions and published a Tibetan Buddhist sonnet of mine.

There are lots of reviews of D forthcoming, and I thank the authors.

My twenty-something whizz kid has edited my Wiki bio, which was six years out date. The best link is to my reading for the Library of Congress thirteen years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Murphy_(poet)

http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/fea...c.php?rec=3616

Two poems in the spring Hudson Review. At year end I shall publish Hunter's Log Vols II and III, a really big book. The great Eldridge Hardie has come out retirement to illustrate it.

Julie Steiner · #2 05-09-2017, 10:48 AM

Congrats, Tim!

(I've slightly tweaked the Wikipedia link above.)

Michael Juster · #3 05-09-2017, 01:44 PM

I've tweeted Tim's poems @amjuster in case anyone wants to spread the word on social media.

Tim Murphy · #4 05-20-2017, 10:10 AM

Thanks, Mike, I'm too old for social media, but my hat's off to those who do. Yesterday David Rothman wrote me out of the blue to contribute to Think, the poetry journal of Western Colorado State in Gunnison, one of our old stomping grounds. I sent two devotional sonnets I composed in the late night before, and he graciously accepted within ten minutes.

Susan McLean · #5 05-20-2017, 02:42 PM

Lovely sonnets, Tim.

Susan

Tim Murphy · #6 05-23-2017, 09:55 AM

Thank you Susan. I also sent David two slightly longer poems which I REALLY want to publish in Colorado, Grand Canyon, and a poem about the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. They will appear in the next issue of his journal.