A lot of the work you have helped me with at the Deep End will be finding its way into print. Disenchantment Bay was turned down by the New Yorker, in my first submission in thirty-five years, but Muldoon wrote me a lovely rejection letter. Right now it's languishing at Poetry. My spirits were greatly lifted this morning, however, when I received word from Paul that Wind River Justice will be published in First Things. It is my first poem in blank verse, and it is a big poem. Last week First Things published my paraphrase from Augustine, and I was pleased by that. For all his PhD in theology, Joseph Bottum is truly a man of the American West, as am I, and I am grateful to call him my publisher.
I mentioned over at the Deep End that the sequence that began as Training, then morphed into Dove Log, then was retitled at Aliki's suggestion, The Blind Retrieve, will be in Gray's Sporting Journal, as will Posted, my current posting at our senior board. I've just read the author proofs of Working Stiffs from Sewanee Theological Review, and I want to reiterate my thanks to the many poets who made me keep at it, the only sonnet sequence I have ever written. STR is going to be a good home for Murphy. The editor just sent me the current issue, and there is an astonishingly good poem by a Rob Griffith. Is he the editor of Measure? S'pose I should send there too.
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