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[sovay]

And this afternoon's mail brought me the first issue of Moral Relativism Magazine, in which my poem "Abite Laeti, Abite Locupletes" appears between thoughts on Susan Bordo and a reprint of Ambrose Bierce. This is an unusual poem for me; it is nonfantastic, political, and one of the best things I think I wrote all last year. The magazine looks terrific, too.

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Fabulous!

Nine

[sovay]

Fabulous!

Makes me happy!

[timesygn.livejournal.com]

Moral Relativism looks like a very interesting magazine. One to make religious wing-nuts and absolutists of all stripes cringe, so in that it appears useful as well. Congratulations on the sale.

[sovay]

Congratulations on the sale.

Thank you. I am pleased with it.

You should check out the guidelines for the next issue. The reading period is open until May.

[timesygn.livejournal.com]

I have, and thank you for the suggestion. I shall think on the topic.

In the meantime, I respond with a small gift in the form of recommended reading. Do you know The Magus by John Fowles? Chapter 53 (Ελευθερία) can be read as a discrete short story and is of especial relevance to the question at hand.

[sovay]

Do you know The Magus by John Fowles? Chapter 53 (Ελευθερία) can be read as a discrete short story and is of especial relevance to the question at hand.

I have read The Magus, but not in years; I'll give it a re-read. Thanks!

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

I think I said at the time you announced this sale that I just love that there IS a Moral Relativism Magazine. The fact that it publishes poetry--your poetry--is gravy.;)

[sovay]

I think I said at the time you announced this sale that I just love that there IS a Moral Relativism Magazine.

Ja. You should send them stuff.

The fact that it publishes poetry--your poetry--is gravy.

Hey, I appreciate it.

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear they're still out there--I'd started worrying recently that they weren't. After I discovered Moral Relativism I went back to their page a handful of times and each time it was down, so I was afraid they were gone.

[sovay]

After I discovered Moral Relativism I went back to their page a handful of times and each time it was down, so I was afraid they were gone.

They seem alive and well and you should send them something!

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I'm curious about your poem now :) and the magazine.

I have to tell you ... I dreamed about you last night. I was at a family party on my husband's side, which generally tends to mean I'm stressed and want to go home (it's not just me; my husband feels the same). But instead, there were pieces of Erzebet's artwork up in the house, including the piece I have with your poem and another, which doesn't actually exist, of one of your poems--a kind of large scroll, shellacked, with the poem written in calligraphy. I couldn't actually read the words to tell you what the poem was. But we were talking about these two pieces of art/poetry, and you said, But I don't know why they're not finished. For some reason, the poems were left off, trailing into the air. And then I woke.

Weird?

[sovay]

Congratulations! I'm curious about your poem now :) and the magazine.

Thank you! I can certainly recommend the magazine.

and another, which doesn't actually exist, of one of your poems--a kind of large scroll, shellacked, with the poem written in calligraphy.

That would be lovely. Maybe I should ask Erzebet if it's possible to make real.

For some reason, the poems were left off, trailing into the air.

(I don't know if we could get that effect, though.)