[David Landrum]

I just got word that my poem "Shereen’s Ghazal" will appear in the next issue of The Barefoot Muse.

dwl

[Chris Hanson]

Good work, David.
I'm in there too with a sonnet called "Burned Out".

[David Landrum]

Congrats, Chris!

Any other Spherians in Barefoot Muse this issue?

dwl

[Marybeth Rua-Larsen]

Congrats David and Chris...I'll be in the issue too, with a series of fibs. Looking forward to your ghazal, David...I've been working on one myself and finding it quite a challenge.

Marybeth

[Susan McLean]

I will be in it with "Self-Portrait, Age Ten."

Susan

[Maryann Corbett]

Me too, with "Flight."

[Quincy Lehr]

I'm in with 'Suicide Town' and possibly a second poem, too--last I heard, it was being held.

Quincy

[David Landrum]

Originally posted by Marybeth Rua-Larsen:
Congrats David and Chris...I'll be in the issue too, with a series of fibs. Looking forward to your ghazal, David...I've been working on one myself and finding it quite a challenge.
Marybeth

I'll be eager to see your fibs--a fascinating new form of poetry.

As for the ghazal . . . I'm a little nervous about it becasue it is very explicit in language, more than anything I've written. So we'll see what kind of reception it gets.

dwl

[Marybeth Rua-Larsen]

Well now I'm really looking forward to reading your ghazal, David! I wouldn't say my fibs are explicit, exactly, but some of them deal frankly with sexuality...so you won't be totally alone. And I have to say that I admire Anna's willingness to include poems that are sexual in nature and even explicit...a lot of editors won't take that on for fear of being offensive and, perhaps, general squeamishness. Certainly there is a great line-up of poets in the next issue!

[Rick Mullin]

I'm down with a Rondeau called "Bodhi Day".