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!

You may now cast your ballots at the Vote thread on Distinguished Guest. You have until Thursday, April 21, 9 p.m. EDT.