Julie Stoner's essay on 3-6 will appear in Alabama Literary Review. Cathy Chandler's essay on 11 is submitted to Dappled Things. Maryann has not determined where yet to submit her essay on 22. I have submitted an essay on 30 and 32 to Hudson Review (which just took that five sonnet sequence, Alan's Ashes.) My enormous essay on a bunch of psalms appeared in the October and November issues of Chronicles. I have another under review at Anglican Theological Review. I have urged Seree to write an essay on 18, an enormous prayer to God for an encircled and imperiled Israel. And write it not just as a scholar but as the mother of teen-age boys who risk their lives in the IDF. I want that in the Jerusalem Post! And stand-alone poems have appeared in Seewanee Theological Review, First Things, New Walk, and the Flea. So we are building an editorial consensus for the book in a wide variety of prestigious publications representing both liberal and conservative, Catholic and Protestant views. The notion of presenting the poems in the context of essays is a new one, and I justify it on the grounds that David is the founder of lyric poetry and that Alan is dead. And that the case for a metrical version need be made to readers who just automatically turn to the KJV or RSV. The average church-goer does not understand that David is a poet!
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