[Rick Mullin]

I have a few things to report.

I had a poem up at We Are Kin about a week ago--"Chimaera." They also accepted "My Fisherman's Sweater."

The Literary Bohemian has accepted a poem called "De Profundis."

My old chestnut, "The Sandwich Man of Thornall Towers," was accepted in an anthology of sonnets that Mary Meriam is compiling at Headmistress Press called Irresistible Sonnets. Very glad to be in that one.

Another Sonnet, "Star Trek," was accepted by Great Weather for Media for their 2013 anthology. And my seven-sonnet crown, "Lexanne," will be in Rabbit Ears, an anthology of TV poems that I know Holly is in.

I have signed off on the final draft of my collection Coelacanth, which is due out in June, maybe in time for West Chester.

All my work comes through here, it seems. Thanks to all as always.

Rick

[Rick Mullin]

Thanks for reading this mawkishly padded list, friends. I'm trying to convince myself I'm still in the game (I got the wind knocked out of me at New Walk, which reviewed Soutine).

[Quincy Lehr]

Sorry about the negative review, Rick. I can't even get my book-lengther into print, as it happens. Glad to hear about the upcoming collection, in any event.

[Rick Mullin]

Oh, I'll be OK. Thanks.

[Bonnie Phares]

Congratulations, Rick. You are really doing well! You are very accomplished.

Bonnie

[Ned Balbo]

Hi, Rick, I'm looking forward to checking out the new work I can find on line. I especially look forward to "Star Trek." (Yes, I'm a nerd...) Do you know Bryan Dietrich's collection Prime Directive?

I'm sorry to hear Soutine got a bad review. I think it's excellent, as are the Stones Jones Canzones. In any case, congrats on having so much good news overshadow the bad!

[RCL]

Rick, I’m not sure what the connection is between you and the Beach Boys, but your link reminded me of back in 1969 or early 70s when I still lived in Beverly Glen Canyon and discovered them rehearsing in a nearby garage. Another time, climbing over the hills above the Stone Canyon reservoir, I found them playing in a clearing, we talked, I said a poem or two, and we smoked. Clever guys. Maybe something (for me) to write about!

And Wow, congrats on your projects!

Ralph

[Bill Carpenter]

Great work, Rick. You are pouring it on. Soutine is wonderful from the memorable first line with the artist and the world created in a lightning flash of charcoal on brown paper.

Read Soutine, friends. You won't go away hungry.

[Janice D. Soderling]

What Bill said.
Congrats on all these fine acceptances, Rick.

[Rick Mullin]

Thanks folks! That Beach Boys song, Ralph, is the male anthem for feeling sorry for oneself--going to the quiet place and gaining perspective. That's why the girls in the audience are screaming!

As I told Rory Waterman and Nick Everett at New Walk in my "thank you" e-mail, it is a fair review. My objections and refutations shall be reserved, I told them, for the sock puppet hour (same room as in the Beach Boy song) and I will gladly take what I can get--which ain't easy to get. New Walk published a review, and the "thank you" to the editors (now public) is quite sincere. The sock puppets have been packed away.

RM