[Janet Kenny]

Am I the first to receive my copy?
Wonderful collection.

Sphereans in this issue (I hope I include everyone) are:

Wendy Videlock
Don Kimball (sorry Don, I had missed your name)
Stephen Scaer
Jennifer Reeser
Janet Kenny
Rose Kelleher
Marion Shore
Jim Hayes

I know so many of the other names. I am thrilled to be in such diverting and thoughtful company.
Janet

[This message has been edited by Janet Kenny (edited March 27, 2005).]

[Rose Kelleher]

Mine hasn't come yet, Janet, but I look forward to reading your poem. I'm delighted to have somehow insinuated myself into what promises to be a fine issue, and that ain't just kissy kissy.

[Jim Hayes]

Kissy-kissy is O.K. with me Rose, I've seen yer picture and you're a fine hault Seriously tho' it's great to be in the company of such good poets and favorite people to boot!

Jim

[Stephen Scaer]

I haven't received mine yet either. Hurray for the Australian postal service. I'm delighted to find myself among such August -- and reportedly attractive -- company.
Stephen

[Don Kimball]

Thanks, Janet. I, too, am proud to be in this worthy journal - and amongst some stellar eratos. Though it was awhile ago, I do want to thank the Deep-Enders for the helpful criticisms I got in revising my triolet.

Don

[Janet Kenny]

I think this issue of Iambs & Trochees is particularly good. Since the demise of the Formalist it is also particularly important.

Thanks to those who dropped in to acknowledge it.
Janet

[Richard Wakefield]

My issue hasn't arrived yet, but maybe the delivery cart headed east from New York and so reached Australia before Puget Sound. I'm looking forward to it, though. I&T is always a treat, and this issue promises to be be even better than their usual.
RPW

[Janet Kenny]

Thank you Richard. I wish I hadn't posted the message so early. It never occurred to me that Australia would be the first. (Not that I'm not grateful

Janet

[Marion Shore]

I got mine late also. It has a lot of great stuff in it, and I'm glad to be in such good company. My piece in it was workshopped extensively here, and greatly benefited. I agree with Janet that I&T seems the likely heir apparent to The Formalist.

[Susan McLean]

My issue was also rather late in arriving, but I have read through it now. There are relatively few poetry journals that I can read all the way through with pleasure, and this is one of them. It was good to see so many poems by writers I knew, some of which I had not seen before.

Susan