Show LI i POETS MEET AND liSTEN TO EACH OTHERS OTHER'S VERSES Chicago March Two I.-Two Two hotbeds ds ot ot of poetry and literature are aro flourishing In Chicago toda today rho Thoy are tho the Press Writers club duo and tho Authors and Students Students Students Stu Stu- dents club Both organizations arc for forthe forthe forthe the purpose of at providing audiences for members member and their tho The Th men members bers armed with manuscripts assembled assembled as as- on different evenings in the tho John Joh Crerar library to listen ii tJ each others other's poems and stories storIe Novels ls and plays aro arc barred harred Tho poems are read rend without admitting their author authorship this to Insure an unprejudiced decision on their merits Following are aro a n few i examples which have haye been read and written by members A Message Soft night on whoso whose most gentle air Descends tho the snow thou a message to my ray fair In accents low Tell her th the hove Jovo within my breast Is pure and In palo pOlo ermine dressed Like Liko to the snow Co a tb n. n She loves me mo nut not this well weIl I knew And yet ct it ft comforts me That once when she had stubbed her I toe I fell Cell and hurt my m knee At those these meetings the tha center of ot lit literature lIt lIt- I is shifted and tho the tables are turned Members embers take precedence over tho bards of history and for a a. few tew hours CO 0 O how brief brIen the tho bud budding ln geniuses gen gen- l listen to tho the music of their own verse the acclaim accorded It sit in si silence silence si- si lence while th their lr fellow tellow members ac actually nc- nc consider debate advise ad and opine over Its merits Many of ot the members are 10 connected with magazines and contribute to tn tIn flU pages of 01 weekly and monthly cals eals Tho The Press Writers club does docs not write exclusively for tor tho the pre press but also permits some of Its productions to app appear ar in fn the magazines Here Hore are arc two other samples samples- A Dream in the tho City Those lau laughing waters plashing pleasantly pleasantly pleasantly pleas pleas- antly Where fishes sport away from noondays noondays noonday's noon days day's glare How lIow often oHen havo I listened silently And soothed my ray burning heal of or despair How often have my t footsteps led mo me tIm there e re To con can tho time ways was of oc this old world of ot men inca I For Por they potent till would dispel m my iy care So foreign fore to the stillness of their glen gler I Cool lyric waters sing Ing a again thy song And call mo inc from the tho haunts I fro fro- here And with th thy music and thy calm caIrn pr l long nr L Thy Tny benediction to year eJr I When hen I shall leave lea for tor aye tho the nosy noisy throng I II I And drink m my fill till froth from out your OUr OUra wa waters a wa- wa aters I tore clear lIr LJ Love Line n a In la VenI c edI Ictus sum sumI RumI sum Rum I came I saw I fell Her face entranced d me sealed lcd my doom Ive I've nothing moro more to toll Except I write as glad d 11 as ns Caesar sar wrote When hen he to Rome Romo penned that historic note The verses havo have been favorably criticised criticised crit crit- by poetical authorities not connected con con- with either of time tile clubs |