Sewanee Sonnets Soon
 

Today's mail brought my pay (!) for the two sonnets of mine that will be appearing in the next issue of The Sewanee Review ("America's oldest literary quarterly" and a consistently rewarding read!).

The poems are funny-ish (I hope) takes on illustrious primates: one about a caged orangutan and one about my dad. Both gained much from workshopping here, so my thanks, once again, to this community.

Best wishes,

--Simon

Great placement, Simon. Congratulations!

Congratulations, Simon! It is always a treat to be paid for poems. Sadly, I have noticed that the number of female poets in that journal is very low indeed.

Susan

Marvelous, Simon. Congratulations. You can sing, with a Myron Cohen-like accent, "Way down upon the Sewanee Review . . ."

dwl

It's always nice when one gets paid for their work, double congrats, Simon

A very prestigious venue. Big congratulations, Simon!

Best,
Jean

Congrats, Simon! Great venue.

David R.

Definitely the big time, Simon. Congrats.

Bumping up to say thanks, all, for the support and that I've just received the issue in the mail (woohoo!), so you can look for it at your friendly news-stand.

As to Susan's concern: interesting, and something I regret not having considered more deeply before. The issue with my two poems contains poems by 2 women, 6 men (including me), and J.P. White (whose gender is unknown to me). The only fiction is by a female writer, but the essays are all by men, I think. A perusal of the back-issues on my shelves reveals similar proportions...

Congratulations, Simon. George runs a grand old journal, even if a case for chauvinism could be made. Tell me, how many years did it take from submission to publication???