[Tim Murphy]

Because of my long vacation, I didn't send anything out for eighteen months until January. Since then, First Things published Retreat, tomorrow Commonweal publishes my big "There but for the Grace" (Slater version, thanks again Roger.) Chronicles is publishing Trebuchet, which I think I workshopped here, and today's Merriwether Lewis poem, Grand Portage. Our fearless leader is publishing my three part Ode to Ford (an older three part het met ode) which is very funny. Alabama Literary Review is publishing the following strict trimeters, mostly workshopped here: Confessio Amantis, Charismatic, Widower, Feast, and Bardo Thodol. I'll just update this thread as the rest of the submissions draw replies. Editorial support is appearing for the new stuff, but out here you never know.

Dakota Institute Press, publisher of my last three books, has gone broke (why does this happen to me, am I a jinx?) But North Dakota State University Press has snapped up the next six books ready to roll. Devotions will come out at year end. Then the monster, Miles to Go, which encompasses five collections of about 100 pages each, will follow.

I well remember rejection slips twenty years ago, and I wish all of you the luck of the Irish.