"The Human Experience" and "St. Valentine in America," from the just-completed Dear Successful Accidents, were accepted by Quarterly West.

Verse Daily came through, and "Elegy for the Builder's Wife" was the official poem of the day for August 3rd. That poem originally appeared in the Spring issue of The Iowa Review, which was a great read--check out Patrick Madden's essay "Finity" if you get the chance.

If you haven't caught your vitamin C at the Kenyon Review yet, this is for you.

I now have a weekly music column for Transmission Entertainment. It's called Hot Off the Press, and it's not too shabby.

And if you're particularly deprived of poeticism, here's some love from New Orleans Review.

Connecticut Review is publishing "The Circuit," while Gulf Coast has accepted "This Quiet Complex" for future publication. Also, Third Coast has accepted "The Surveyor" for their Fall 2008 issue, and "Sheets" will be coming out in Inkwell, a nice journal out of Manhattanville College.

The poem "Hourglass" is in the current issue of The Cincinnati Review.

After a couple months of back-and-forth editing, the poem "Peer Into" has been accepted by Massachusetts Review, based out of UMass at Amherst. The poem "A Man Who Could Have Been" has been accepted for the 2008 issue of Parthenon West, and three poems--"Lesson," "This Is a Clarification, pt. 3," and "This is a mountain of silence and vindication"--have been accepted for American Poetry Journal.

Many music posts on this site originally appeared on Austinist.com. Go there for great culture, arts, news, music, and everything else.

Identity Theory, the journal of art, culture, science, and politics, published my poem, "The traveler awakes. Her train awakes." in their Fall 2007 Poetry Collection.

Ninth Letter, issue 8, the second most recent issue of perhaps the most sleekly-designed journal in the country, has on its 48th page my poem "Preparing for the Fire."

The Fall 2007 Redivider, out of Emerson College features my poem "Anything but String Theory," as well as Rebecca Hall's "La Maison du Fada."

Part II. of "Where the Workers Lived," a long poem regarding the aftermath of Chernobyl, appears in the new issue of David Hadbawnik's Kadar Koli.

The poem "July" is in issue 7.1 of Harpur Palate, while "Ukraine Love Song" is in the Winter 2007 issue of Denver Quarterly. The Florida Review published in Fall 2007 "The Smallest Room," a poem about Natasha Kampusch.

A couple strange poems are in issue 5 of Barrelhouse, and Flyway published in 2007 "Aubade (The Explorer's Faith)".

My writing has also previously appeared in Caketrain, Court Green, Salamander, The Portland Review, Diagram, Siren, The Pebble Lake Review, Phoebe, Ghoti, Cranky, Lilies & Cannonballs, Astropoetica, Zone 3, and The Literary Review, among others.

Tier 3 is a blog-style journal/launchpad that aims to be a venue for issues ranging from the philosophic to the musical to the poetic to the topical, the sociological, the psychological, genetic, developmental, and biological, as well as the physical and non-physical realms of being or reality, not to mention the photographic or otherwise artistic or thought-provoking. It is also a dumping ground for pre-published writing, and me keeping track of myself.

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If you would like to submit an item of interest to post on Tier 3, please send material and a bio in the body of an email to nmcourtright1981@yahoo.com. Please query before sending creative writing. But of course, feel free to make comments on any and all posts.

As a concept, Tier 3 is the difficult-to-define state/stage of human cognitive awareness that comes after Integralism (which itself comes after Postmodernist Relativism and Modernist Hierarchicalism). Hopefully someday we will know what the hell Tier 3 really is.

Nick Courtright listens to too much music and doesn't drink enough for the scene. His poetry has been published here and there--see the column to the left for more info. He muses on music for the Austinist and Soundcheck Magazine, as well as for Transmission Entertainment and Little Radio. When he's not typing or jotting or otherwise fretting, he teaches young collegians at Southwestern and Texas State Universities, as well as Northwest Vista and St. Philips Colleges. A native Ohioan and the eldest of six children, he finds composing third person biographical information ridiculous.

Email: nmcourtright1981@yahoo.com