Show Utah Poetry Festival By ELIZABETH C. WALKER It was a well-attended festival when poets from all parts of the state met last Saturday to honor winning contest poems and their and to get reacquainted with other members and welcome THE MORNING hours were spent in the business of the with the announcement of winning poems four honorable mentions and three Then the winning poems were read i readers and prizes money or first rated and plaques for the last That is a gathering par when you choose the ones you wish to share news and views with and finally circulate until you have met all those you feel an urge to talk THE ASSEMBLY for the afternoon is the main it is at this meeting that representatives of the chapters the state tell of the aims and accomplishments of their various and the final awarding of prizes are The finale is the awarding of the book the book of poems deemed by judges to be the best expression the art receives the Morgan-Pehrson Award and The book of poems will be presented at the annual Poetry Day festivities on October 15 and will be on sale after that These books have become collector's items in very short This year Geradine Pratt won the book PRATT won in several categories In the m various She is a school teacher having taught English and creative writing at Hillside and Horace Mann schools and taught in Wyoming schools before coming to who is a friend of the poets and who represents Fine Arts spoke to the assembled artists and her message was timely and She talked about the swing poetry has taken in the last few having a lewd and pornographic quality that a poet should never IT to the breakdown in ethics and morals noted in much of the field of the arts as Beecher has been requested by the poets to have copies of her speech made available for distribution to all of the |