I'll try this again. Early this morning I had prepared a lengthy blog about yesterday's activities and when I hit the "Post Now" button, I found I had been logged out. When I logged back in and tried to retrieve the blog, everything but the title had disappeared.

Suffice it to say that Friday's panels and classes were informative and inspiring, in particular the Mezzo Cammin Fifth-Anniversary Readings, chaired by Kim Bridgford, with readings by Rhina Espaillat, Julie...

Hello again. Since Quincy hijacked my thread on the Staff forum, I decided to post to my blog instead.

Hello again! Yesterday I heard Micheal O'Siadhail at the "Poets' Landscapes & Sense of Place" panel read one of the most beautiful poems of place I have ever heard, "October" by Patrick Kavanagh. Hope someone can find a link and post it. He spoke about parochial vs. provincial place posme, and read three of his own cityscapes - on Dublin, London and new York....

Some Sphereans will be arriving at the Philadelphia airport on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 7 and catching the 5:00 shuttle bus from the airport to West Chester. We're thinking it might be nice to get together for dinner that evening. If anyone's interested, please send me a PM and I'll start to organize. Cathy

Any Sphereans attending this year? Please let me know and maybe we can organize a get-together. I'm really looking forward to meeting some of my "virtual" friends!

Congratulations, Cally Conan-Davies, Adam Elgar and Tom Kerrigan for placing first, second and third, respectively.

Some final comments by Sam Gwynn are also posted as well as a special sonnet in memory of Alan Sullivan.

Hope you'll stop by!