I'm pretty googlable, but as an experiment I just started typing first lines into google search. No author. Shit, my poems are everywhere. There are services I've never heard of who must scan and archive the literary quarterlies, the little mags, then of course there are the zines, Alan's seablogger.com. Reviews, essays, personal blogs by people I've never heard of. I picked ten first lines at random and found every one. Every poem correctly transcribed, whew. Is there a way to get paid for this, he asked plaintively.
Then I googled Timothy Murphy poem. In the first ten pages of citations in this specific search there was only one mention of the Sphere. So if there's Sphere stuff it's buried deeper than anyone would ever go. I did learn that there is an unfriendly Wikipedia article with a deliberate falsehood.
[This message has been edited by Tim Murphy (edited July 29, 2008).]
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