[Simon Hunt]

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

[Catherine Chandler]

Great placement, Simon. Congratulations!

[Susan McLean]

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

[David Landrum]

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

dwl

[Cyn Neely]

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

[Jean L. Kreiling]

A very prestigious venue. Big congratulations, Simon!

Best,
Jean

[David Rosenthal]

Congrats, Simon! Great venue.

David R.

[Maryann Corbett]

Definitely the big time, Simon. Congrats.

[Simon Hunt]

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...

[Tim Murphy]

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???