[Golias]

Per Contra, the International Journal of the Arts, Literature and Ideas, is adding a supplement for light verse. I hear from editor Miriam Kotzin that the first issue will feature five (5) of Jim Hayes' inimitable gems, including a sestina, a rondeau a sonnet and a triolet. A few trifles by yr. ob't svt. are slated to appear in the same issue. Watch for it at percontra.net

G/W

[Janice D. Soderling]

Oh, that is a terrific journal. Congratulations to both of you.

[Janet Kenny]

Congratulations to Jim and Wiley.
Janet

[Tim Murphy]

Well, they're off on the right foot! Congratulations.

[Jim Hayes]

Wiley, thanks for the heads up and Janice, Janet and Timmo for the kind comments.

It's quite a coup to be associated with this journal, last Spring it published Rhina Espaillat, Maxine Kumin and John Updike.

And, it pays! Not a lot to be sure but who cares when you get the chance to appear in a journal alongside Wiley Clements.

[Gail White]

Congratulations to Jim & Wiley!
I look forward to seeing you both in Per Contra.

(Also hope they will be reading more light verse in the future. At present the site says they are not considering unsolicited poetry. )

[Golias]

Gail, as I understandd the situation, Per Contra and the light verse supplement will publish poems by invitation only, but several distinguished contributing editors, such as former US poet laureate Daniel Hoffman, make recommendations to the principal editors, Miriam Kotzin and Bill Taylor, who themselves have large acquaintanceships with currently practicing authors and artists.

I was introduced to Per Contra by Dan Hoffman whose late wife, Elizabeth McFarland, was the poetry editor (Scholastic Magazine and Ladies' Home Journal) who first published my work as well as that of Rhina Espaillat, way back in the 1940's.

So if you are acquainted with any of the contributing editors shown on the Per Contra masthead, or if one of them is a friend of a friend, and you have some really good poems as yet unpublished, you might try that route.


G/W

[wendy v]

Sure is a lot of action on this board, and so much inspiring news here. Warm congratulations, Jim and Wiley.