[Edmund Conti]

Thanks, John. That is good to hear. I have a bunch of drawings on my computer, scribbles actually. I think I'll look for one that might work.

[Jim Moonan]

All I have to offer at the moment is some tongue-in-cheek good news I received this on my screen today as I opened the Eratosphere web page:

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Which I did. Then this came up:

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I didn’t bite. Just clicked out and got back to the business of reading poetry, looking for crits. That's the real good news.

[Edmund Conti]

So what are you saying, Jim. You don't need a testosterone booster?

[Jim Moonan]

Ha! I'm a raging bull, Edmond. I am the most interesting man in the world.

https://youtu.be/l_9hrV1KIx4

[Roger Slater]

A few weeks ago my website host informed me that my site was taken down because of a malware attack, and that the only practical solution was for me to pay one of their "partners" to fix it. So I went to a different host instead, and I redid my website using Wix, which I found to be superior in every way to my former Joomla site, and even fun to work with. I still have plans to expand the site, and maybe even add a blog, but it's ready to visit now. If you stop by, please click on the "like" button at the bottom. My site.

[John Isbell]

Nice to hear about your Rilke parody!
And props on your new website.

Cheers,
John

[Max Goodman]

Who is your former web host, Bob?

[Douglas G. Brown]

Roger

Your site is lookin' good. I read, and I clicked like.

[Maryann Corbett]

It's good news for all of us that old Sphereans A.E. Stallings and Wendy Videlock both have poems in Best American Poetry 2017. (You can page forward to the end of the TOC to see which poems made it.)

[Susan McLean]

That is good news, Maryann. It is nice when formalists get a foot in that particular door, and it is good to have such excellent poets represented there.

Susan