Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-23 | Page 3 | Poet Laments

IJ Poet Laments J t JOSEPH AUSLANDER True Poets Born Not Paid Says Auslander No Place Now for Keats Asserts BREAD LOAF Vt Sept To 22 day no modern magazine would accept ac- ac Keats Keats' Eve Ee ot of St. St Agnes and his immortal odes Such Is the attitude attitude at- at toward poetry and such the editorial preferences ot of magazines that his Endymion Lamia Isabelle Is behle abelle and would probably ably bl neer never be read says sas Joseph Auslander poet and lecturer speak speak- recently on Marketing the Poem at the Bread Loaf Loat conference conference confer confer- ence on Creative Writing under the auspices of cOllege Poets are not born paid There ls h no place in the magazine ot of toda today to- to da day with the exception ot of those devoted purely to poetry for fOl poems in the grand manner Poetry today today to- to day must be brief local contemporaneous clever inconsequential It must be capable ot of being Inserted slender into a corner of the last page or of an article on tractors or domestic science The Th Dig Big Four ot of Linotype Alley have their gustos and and With regard to poetry at least their shadowy and Inscrutable polIcies The magazines which eater cater to the malcontents the intellIgentsia the Irregulars waging guerrilla warfare warfare war war- fare on the and all brows high low and middle accept accept ac- ac only those poems which seem edged acid enough to their be own As to those periodicals periodicals' devoted de to the advance skirmish movements nothing orthodox secures an audi audi- ence They are the continental grOUPS with no too foreign polIcy and no immigration JaWs They prefer poems made in Czechoslovakia or cIsalpine Gaul or best of at an all La Rotonda to the home products The majority ot of the women's magazines vill consider only noninflammable poetry The pure poet poetry magazines and their names and number are legion offer octer little lIlt or no remuneration tion The They are the refuge the im- im asylums of all the weak the wear weary the footsore among the singers The only chance for tor the I poet toda today Is to write novels Authors and editors Included among the lecturers at Dread Bread Loaf Leaf were Margaret novelist novel novel- 1st and poet Grant Overton O Roben Robert Rob Rob- en ert r. M. Ga Gay essayist Stephen Vincent yin yin- cent Denet Benet author of John Browns Brown's Do Body d Maxwell Ale Aley fiction editor edi- edi tor ot of the Womans Woman's Home Companion Companion Com Com- panion T. T S S. S Stribling author of at Harr tarry I-tarry C. C Maule editor edi- edi tor of Short Stories