[Siham Karami]

The formal-friendly website Atavic Poetry has posted one of my poems, "Dark Phoenix," a villanelle which was workshopped here. Not only raw ego, but I actually like the website, and posting this helps promote it. The editor publishes each poem with photos she selects, each poem starting as a featured poem on the top of the home page for a time (I think a week), after which it still remains but scrolling down. Other Spherians have had poems published there occasionally.

[Janice D. Soderling]

Congratulations, Siham. Well writ.

[Jean L. Kreiling]

Thought-provoking and well-constructed. I especially like "Can we just put off / an hour, a day, a crest or two, a trough . . . ?"

[Mary Meriam]

Congratulations, Siham. It has just the kind of lilt a villanelle needs.

[Siham Karami]

Thanks so much, Janice, Jean, and Mary!!! It means a lot that you read this.

[Pedro Poitevin]

Congratulations, Siham. Nice villanelle!