Dear Poet:I have the most wonderful news to share
with you!
The news has to do with fulfilling a dream I've had since I was a little girl, over 70
years ago... about
publishing an anthology of the most beautiful religious poetry being written in our
century! Surely the
world needs such a book now, more than ever before! My dream has not faded through the
years, but has
become, indeed, a burning passion. Finally, after a full life of inspiring poets and being
inspired by them, I'm
hard at work!
For several months now I've been working on Our Twentieth Century's Greatest
Religious Poems. As the
name suggests, the book comprises religious poems by our world's greatest contemporary
poets. And the
exciting news is:
I'd like permission to publish one of your beautiful poems in the book!
I've lived in this world a good long while, and I'm sure of one thing: every
fine poet such as yourself, has
written at least one goodif not greatreligious poem, a poem that friends and
family agree is the best
you've ever written
(It goes on and on; you get the point.)