[Jennifer Reeser]

Catholic Arts Today asked me to write an article about Timothy Murphy for them. It is now live, and you can read it here:

http://benedictinstitute.org/2018/07...s-6-new-poems/


In my article are several new poems by Tim.

Jennifer

[Bill Carpenter]

This is great. Your vivid recollection, your honesty, and your sincerity are worthy of Tim. You both live and breathe. Maybe you will expand this some day. A prosimetrum in the spirit of Set the Ploughshare Deep.

[Robert Pecotte]

Thank you Jennifer.

That was a wonderful walk with you and Tim. I look forward to more when they are ready for the light of day.

Fr. Rob

[Catherine Chandler]

Robert,


I'm almost finished organizing Last Poems. Although it reads as a journal intime, Tim was adamant in that he wished all of his final poems -- often almost too painful to read -- to appear in the tome, to be shared with his readers (whom he addresses directly in several of the poems). He considered it a self-imposed "mission", a sacred duty, and I shall honor his wishes.


Jennifer,


Your article is wonderful!!! I guess I'm too reticent to share publicly the poem Tim wrote for me a while back, and even less so the one he wrote just a few days before his death, but I treasure them.


However, his final dedicatory note to me was also (partly) in French: To loyal Cathy. Je t'aime.

Missing Tim.


Cathy

[Jennifer Reeser]

Bill, I may just one day do so. Also, I am thinking of adopting Tim's dismissive approach to the critic: "I've heard worse from the Sioux." He was great for me, that way. Father, as always, I am grateful you stopped by! Cathy, thank you, and also, for the very, very important work you are doing for Tim, which meant so much to him. Thanks to all.

Jennifer