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Show ERMA TAYLOR Erma Taylor selected poet of year A poetry recital honoring Erma B. Taylor will be held this Saturday at the Uintah County Library beginning at 2:00 p.m. Erma has been named the 1981 Uintah Basin Poet of the Year. She is the third person ever to be awarded this title. "I like to consider myself a poet through the years," said Erma who has been writing poetry for over 50 years. At last count she has 14 scrap books filled fill-ed with her poems. The first poem Erma had published was titled "A Tribute to Uintah Pioneers" in the book BUILDERS OF UINTAH in 1947. Since then she has won over 150 separate prizes for her poetry. She has had 31 limmericks published in the Deseret News alone. Although most of her poetry has been published in the Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News many have appeared in such books as UTAH SINGS and AN ANTHOLOGY OF SALT LAKE CITY. Erma writes with sincerity and feeling feel-ing of her heritage, her home, her family fami-ly and her friends. She writes for any occasion and for any person upon request. re-quest. But most of all, Erma knows humor and she writes it delightfully. Her light verse is as funny and as good as any ever written. Almost everyone in the Basin has read Erma's poetry or heard it read. "If you would like to hear more or enjoy it for the first time please join us this Saturday at the Uintah County Library," stated Bonnie Behunin, Uintah Uin-tah Poetry Society, president The recital is sponsored by the Uintah Chapter of the Utah State Poctrv Society- Doris Ann MetTell of Salt Lake City visited over the weekend with her parents. Dale and Betty Men-ell and family. |
