[Tim Murphy]

The Pass Shooter and Intimations of Mortality will appear in Gray’s Sporting Journal. Pont de la lune and Dream Poem, in Chronicles. The first section of In David’s House appeared in Poetry and on Poetry Daily under the title Asperges Me. The final section, in Raintown Review. The other sections will appear in the Anglican Theological Review. As will Champion and To the Corinthians. The St. Peter poem will appear in the Sewanee Theological Review. Black Joe Lake and Syrdal were recorded by Minnesota Public Radio for Soundzine A new journal edited by Rory Waterman has taken For My Nephew and Permission Granted. Much of the Second Step will appear in First Things.

I'm on a roll

[Martin Elster]

You ARE on a roll, Tim. Congrats!

Martin

[John Beaton]

That's quite a game-bag, Tim. I'm pleased for you.

John

[David Landrum]

Great, Tim. Congratulations.

dwl

[Tim Murphy]

Thank you Martin, John, and David. It is forty-two years since I decided I wanted to be a poet, started at seventeen and never wrote a decent poem until I was twenty-five. Slow learner. But now the poems come so fast I can't believe it, and I have what Dana calls "an editorial consensus," so they get published as soon as they go out. It is my hope for every young poet at the Sphere that they persevere in this unremunerative and ancient art.

[Tim Murphy]

I just received PDF's of Missing Mass and Soul of the North, two poems of mine I workshopped at TDE shortly after I got out of treatment. They will be in Chronicles in March. I want to thank everyone who helped me with these verses, especially Alan Sullivan.

[Tim Murphy]

Tonight a favorite editor took an ambitious sequence, identity to be disclosed later. Pinch me I must be dreaming.

Edit back: I sent a wild sonnet, heterometrical, loose iambic, my first submission to 14X14. Peter gently reminded me he took it a month ago!