[Tim Murphy]

Yesterday was a good day, with four poems accepted by Commonweal and the Capital Journal. Quadrant arrived with three poems and Able Muse with two. Most gratifying though, was a glorious essay on Mortal Stakes/Faint Thunder, by Jennifer Reeser in Able Muse. Thank you Jenny, and thank you, Alex.

[Tim Murphy]

Twelve more acceptances, this time a sequence called The Holy Time which I wrote, one poem a day during Holy Week and the Octave of Easter, while in residence at the Church of the Little Flower in Fort Lauderdale. I have really wanted to publish these twelve together rather than piece them out, and I couldn't be more pleased that Dappled Things will print them at Easter.

[Bill Carpenter]

Tremendous, congratulations!

[Tim Murphy]

Thanks, Bill. I enjoyed the excerpts from your ninth century tale over at Met I early this morning. I forgot to mention I've got more work recently accepted at Angle and at Able Muse.

[David Rosenthal]

Roll on mighty Tim!

David R.

[Bill Carpenter]

Thanks, Tim. And more congratulations!

[Tim Murphy]

Thanks, fellows. I sent a new prosimetrum, seven pages of prose and poetry recounting Feeney's last year in the field, and Chucky's first fumbling retrieves, to our Bill Thompson. There are two major poems, which I shall have to withdraw from Gray's, where they are on the growing wait list they have for me. Three smaller ones. Gray's are really stuck on publishing five poems per year, and of course they have to make room for John Beaton, whom I referred to them, dumb Tim. But Bill has sent it downstairs to his poetry editor, and I hope it will see the light of day. I love working with Bill, and I encourage all to send work and subscribe to Alabama Literary Review.

[Charlotte Innes]

You really are rolling, Tim! Congrats for all of this.

Charlotte

[Tim Murphy]

Janet Kenny has just sent a pretty glorious and substantial review of my three books from late 2011 to Quadrant. I am deeply in her debt.

It takes so long for reviews to come out, particularly in print, but I'm gratified that it is finally happening.

[Tim Murphy]

Yesterday Gray's accepted a dual elegy in trimeter for Steve Syrdal's dog Betty and my Feeney. And Paul Lake took Foxhome for First Things.