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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Steele, Frank".
Frank Steele was editor of Tennessee Poetry Journal. Steele writes from Martin, Tennessee, asking for a contribution from Merton. Merton's "A Round and a Hope for Smithgirls" appeared in the second issue of Tennessee Poetry Journal in 1968:1 (winter).
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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1967/08/25 |
TALS to Merton |
TENNESSEE POETRY JOURNAL is a new journal scheduled for fall publication, 1967. |
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1967/09/05 |
TALS to Merton |
We like your poem "Secular Signs" very much and plan to use it in our first issue. At present, |
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1967/09/08 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
Thanks very much for your letter of the 5th and for the enclosed surprise. I am glad to help out |
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[Merton's handwritten note at the bottom of the page: "Smithgirls" - likely he submitted his poem "A Round and a Hope for Smithgirls" to Steele]
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1967/10/01 |
TLS to Merton |
We are sending you copies of TPJ today or tomorrow and hope that you will enjoy our poets. |
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1967/10/08 |
TLS to Merton |
We have sent some copies of Vol. I, No. 1, to you. If you can possibly find the time, we would |
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asking for feedback for journal
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1967/10/16 |
TL[c] from Merton |
First, let me get the practicalities out of the way: I did not get the letter and check |
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Merton's feedback for journal: notes on regionalism and identity as Southerners - his strange identity as Southerner living near Bardstown, a past refuge for many French emigrants like himself and Gethsemani's first monks / structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss vs. criticism by Paul Ricoeur - structuralist view of South
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1967/11/03 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Here is the Joycean piece I spoke of. It was written eight or nine years ago and I never got |
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1967/11/10 |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks a lot for your card and for the encouraging words. About poems you sent: |
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