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  • Quebec, My Muse, and Me
    / Note, very long: The story spans 60 years. / / The children are asleep, / and I their mother, have been / sorting files. Tossing tan
    1483 words, 31 comments, May 24, 2007. In Life, Love, Personal. Reward

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  • : Thankyou For The Replies on May 1, 2007
    Thankyou for all the replies to my comments on your poems. Hope you will have a look at some of mine that I have recently uploaded onto this site.

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  • on Ever Lost. by gnosisonG, on July 22
    Hello Simon,

    I returned to see what others had said, as much as to experience again what you had written. I can tell you that it does not fade with time--rather the opposite. It belongs in permanently available form, expressing as it does in fully descriptive, evocative form, a sense of outrage and pain... and perverse history.

    Poems, even exemplary poems, tend to be ephemeral unless they are in print.

    I read Harper's Magazine which fearlessly exposes humanity's ills, and publishes poetry occasionally, poetry that yours leaves panting in the dust. Nothing I have seen there is even on the same planet as yours! Somehow those writers have, however been published there.

    My question has several parts. One, do you have access to, or have you seen the magazine? Library perhaps?

    HARPER'S MAGAZINE, (it says on the title page)
    FOUNDED IN 1850/ VOL 317, NO.1899
    AUGUST 2008.

    At the bottom of the page among other things it states "Unsolicited poetry will not be considered or returned. No queries or manuscripts will be considered unless they are accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope, Visit our website at http://www.harpers.org "

    That is pretty well standard, isn't it?
    Have you considered publishing?

    I have no idea what they pay, except that I have been a subscriber for a fair number of years, and know that Ever Lost is of such a high standard both poetically and in content, that its chances of being printed are good.

    Terry, of Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained Dept.

  • on Quebec, My Muse, and Me by Terry-too, on July 16

    totally unexpected!

    I am floored! This is the very last poem I would have expected to see here, having lost everything with the name-change to something plus convenable. J'aurais trouvé toute chose perdue!

    It took my breath away to find it here. Thank you, thank you!
    This has been a very special poem, spanning most of my life as it does. Maybe I'll stay a while!

    The same-ole-Terry