[Maryann Corbett]

Check out the table of contents for the new issue of The Dark Horse. Poems by Aaron Poochigian, Kevin Cutrer, Tim Murphy, Amit Majmudar, and Julie Kane. (There are a couple of other, er, more world-famous names, but they're not Sphere members.) And prose by Rory Waterman. I hope my actual copy comes soon!

[Janice D. Soderling]

Wow, I am looking forward to my copy as well. Congratulations to all you hot Spherians.

[Aaron Poochigian]

Thanks for posting the Table of Contents, Maryann. I hadn't checked it out yet. I'm flattered to be in the same issue as the Murph.

[Adam Elgar]

Looks great - well done, all!

[Andrew Frisardi]

I'm impressed that they've reprinted Edwin Muir's essay on Scottish ballads. And the contents in general look good. Congratulations to all in here with work in there.

[Janice D. Soderling]

Just want to say real quick that my copy came yesterday and it is FANTASTIC. I was so impressed and I may come back later to give details and name names, Eratosphereans and others. I couldn't stop reading. That's a fact.

[Tim Love]

Mine arrived a while ago. I always look forward to it, though the sentence that's made me pause for thought the most in this issue is the perhaps atypical "Gay men growing up in the mid-century in Scotland necessarily found tricks of concealment, and the 'avant-garde' offered an environment in which creativity could be engaged in without too much awkward self-revelation and without having to decide exactly how serious one was about what one was writing" (D.M.Black).
I'm interested in how character traits might relate to poetry styles (though I guess Formalists are rather fed up with that issue). I've been described as a concealer, and I guess I've dabbled a bit with avant-garde stuff. But I've only spent a weekend in Scotland - so far.