[Michael Juster]

By the way, I'm taking suggestions for future essay topics. I'm trying to put some meat on the bones for one I really want to write, but I may not be able to find enough material, so I am pondering other ideas.

[Susan McLean]

Wow, I enjoyed reading the whole issue. It was fun to see so many Spherians in it, some of whose work I had read when it was workshopped here and some of which was new to me. Richard Meyer's and Ed Shacklee's poems were particularly delightful. I learned about a LOT of women poets I didn't know from Mike Juster's excellent article, and I was stunned to read what Dick Davis wrote about me. Cheers to Melissa Balmain and Kevin Durkin for putting together such an entertaining issue.

Susan

[Michael Cantor]

Jerome - Charles Martin's only appearance on the Sphere was as commentator for a translation bake-off in 2008. He's a brilliant poet, but with all due respect to Melissa, and our never-edited membership list of anybody who ever appeared on the Sphere, I don't think he's really a Spherian.

[Rick Mullin]

Congratulations, all.

Rhina's is a nice coda for one of the prominent tangents on the "creative brain" thread.

RM

[Jerome Betts]

Ah, thanks Michael. I understand you mean only technically a Spherean. 2008 was before I joined, so I had only the list to go on.