[Tim Murphy]

I just taped my first show for Prairie Public TV in a long time, maybe ten years. My former interlocutor is now producer, and he wrote the questions for my airbrushed younger anchorman. The half hour interview/reading will be broadcast March 30 all over the Northern High Plains, including Canada, and I'll put up a link to the internet. They say I did good.

Raymond Squares, a poet and publisher in Minneapolis, tracked me down last week to see if I'd contribute to an anthology of Midwestern gay poets. It's to be unpublished work, of which I have very little, but he took five pages of poems.

Les Murray, of Australia's Quadrant, just shot down in flames my latest submission: "There's more shooting and blood in there than our readers will tolerate."