For the record, I don't know where Carol got the idea that I had sent a far larger number to Rhina. That's just a misunderstanding my being on a boat kept me from correcting. I had expected Rhina to choose eight to twelve of the eighteen I forwarded for comment, in which case she would have made the final cut. However, she was kind enough to comment on all of them. Evidently she felt she had to work harder to earn the munificent honorarium Alex is paying! Two poems, one of them a very shapely free verse, came in after my departure, and we'll save them for another occasion. They were very strong, and I regret they didn't come in earlier.
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