[Julie Steiner]

Hi, all! Family stuff has kept me away from the Sphere since last summer, but I wanted to pop in to share the following with you:

1.) This morning, The New York Quarterly's site published Marybeth Rua-Larsen's thoughtful and honest electronic review of Grasshopper: The Poetry of M A Griffiths:
http://nyqreviews.org/grasshopper-th...m-a-griffiths/

Margaret Griffiths (a.k.a. grasshopper, a.k.a. Maz) was a longtime member of the Eratosphere community.

2.) If you missed it earlier, sometime-Spherean Helena Nelson's HappenStance press (in Scotland) has made a genuinely lovely card of Maz's "Pie in the Sky" poem.

Cheers,
Julie

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi Julie

Good news about the New York Quarterly Review of Maz's book, and also Helena Nelson's HappenStance Press in Scotland making a lovely card of Maz's "Pie in the Sky" poem.

In case you missed it, I also reviewed Grasshopper in the latest issue of Loch Raven Review.

All the best

Chris

[Janice D. Soderling]

Well-deserved publicity.

Julie, a good scenario is that the family stuff was good stuff, but if it wasn't I do hope all is well now.

[David Anthony]

Fascinating review by Marybeth.
Also your review, Chris.
We need a 'Selected' of Maz's poems.

[Julie Steiner]

I had missed it, Chris! Thanks for rectifying that situation. I'll spread the word to some folks who will be keenly interested.

LOL, Janice! The astonishing number of kind and supportive people my family knows is indeed very, very good. I'll leave it at that for now.

David--Amen to all you said.

[Andrew Frisardi]

Hey, Julie, good to see you here again! Thanks for posting this. One of these days, I'm going to have to spring for Maz's collection, although I think David has a point that a selected would be a good thing.

[Susan McLean]

It is wonderful to see that Maz's collection is continuing to gain attention through such good reviews. Everyone who mentions the set-up has a point, but when the author is not around to do the selecting, it is hard to decide which poems should stay and which should go. Everyone's tastes will differ, so I think it was a good idea to include a lot, even if it does seem to dilute the excellence of some of her best work. She was so varied in her themes and techniques that this approach shows how versatile she was. I think her best chance for continuing to influence writers who did not know her would be for some of her poems to be anthologized. Very rarely do whole books stick in the public mind. More often it is individual poems that refuse to go away.

Susan