Dear Hugh, Welcome back from down under. I hope you and your wife have had a good experience and a lot of rest. As well, I hope you've seen the latest double issue of _Paideuma_ that includes the papers you (along with Surette and Adams) helped me select--for which I thank you. Terry has asked me to edit another issue that shall focus on Pound and Prosody. As Burt Hatlen says, Terry seems more willing these days to let a few others do some of the work. The "Pound/Prosody" issue is not likely to come together for a couple of more years, and I've asked Barry Ahearn and Hatlen about the possibility of having a EP session on the topic for the 1999 MLA Convention. What do you think? The topic of prosody brings me to me next point: I would like to propose a paper fro the Special Session on "James Laughlin of New Directions" you are trying to organize; it would be entitled something like this: "The Publisher as Prosody: James Laughlin's Visual Couplet Metric." In any case, I will mail you an abstract and a brief vitae within the next few days. In the meanwhile, welcome back and have a Happy New Year. Demetres