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Show n The Daily Utah Chronicle Openings 1978 n Page the blue mou6 I s o res """" Theater " L -- Forty-On- e Caff Gallery la Finest foreign and domestic films Intimate cafe (Open during film showings and Saturdays and Sundays at 230 pn) Quality works exhibited by local artists i i i 1 260 East I 4 Bruce Weigl, the 1978-7- 9 editor of 'Quarterly West the University's literary magazine. Salt Lake City, Utah QW seeks quality writing; enters third publishing year by MARTHA WJCKELHAUS Chronicle staff Quarterly West, the University-base- d literary magazine is two years old. The magazine goes into its third year having survived two years which few men or magazines would have survived unscathed. Literary magazines are not particularly known for their high readerships or long lives but Quarterly West goes on with increasing submissions, subscriptions and continued support from the University Publications Council. Most of the magazine's 12 staff members are in the University's English program and are writers. Few have had magazine experience but they have managed to put a together publication. nationally recognized Bruce Weigl, the 1978-7- 9 editor, is a doctoral student in creative writing and the author of two chapbooks. He will also publish a book of poems in 1979. Weigl is making a few changes in the magazine this year. "We're going to start running a long poem every issue," he said. Associate Editor Terry Hummer explained the staff's philosophy on running the long poems: "Long poems are very difficult to publish in little magazines because of the lack of space and interest. We've decided they deserve the space." "Dinosaurs" by Herb Scott will be the first long poem. According to Weigl the poem is partly about Salt Lake. Magazine editors have also decided to do away with the state historical photographs. Weigl said he plans to use photos by local photographers. The fall issue will contain photos by Richard Schramm, University professor of English. Weigl has commissioned three contemporary women artists to design the cover. The fall cover will be designed by Jean Kondo. Other issues will be designed by Joan Moment and Anne Fry. Since its beginning Quarterly West has been subject to criticism because it refuses to restrict itself to student writing. The magazine accepts works from writers all over the country and has published such writers as Charles Wright, Allen Ginsberg and Maxine Kumin. Weigl said he believes the magazine should publish University writers but he doesn't believe the magazine should be restricted to them. "We wouldn't guarantee Pub Council that would print a certain percentage of student work because we will only publish quality writing," he explained. He stressed, however, that the magazine will print as much quality University writing as they Sandra Andrews, magazine business manager estimated that 43 percent of the work printed comes from the University. Weigl stressed the advantage of student writing appearing alongside the work of established writers. "The writing of Quarterly West is strictly quality writing. If a student gets work published it is not because he or she is a student but because it is a good piece of writing," he said. Weigl said he and Hummer will vist University creative writing classes to encourage more student submissions. For years the Publications Council has provided for some sort of University magazine. Quarterly West was the first attempt to create a magazine which was not limited to the University community. Quarterly West has come a long way from i ts start three years ago under the direction of James Thomas. The magazine began with approval to print three issues only. The next year Andrew Grossbardt submitted a proposal to continue the magazine and the Publications Council decided to make the magazine a continuous operation. The magazine's first year was spent in an office about the size of a large walk-i- n closet. Staff members spent a large part of their time in the office dodging one another's elbows and digging through massive piles of papers. Last year the staff moved into a large, office in the Union; however, the piles of paper are still around. Although the magazine is largely University funded, it must still make part of its revenues from advertising subscriptions and grants. Fiction, poetry and review submissions are judged in an g process. When a read by several is submission comes in, it editors and if they all agree, the work is accepted. Occasionally the editors suggest minor changes. The magazine has no specific deadline for an issue. As soon as enough material is received the magazine goes to press. 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