Show UTAH VERSE A column featuring poems b by y utah writers extends a hand band to all aspiring poets contributions published or unpublished are to be sent to our poetry editor anna prince redd 1076 east center street provo utah all manuscripts should if possible be typewritten single spaced for long and double spaced for shorter ld ms on good grade type paper and a self addressed stamped Vv envelope elope enclosed for the return of unaccepted manuscripts no payment will be made on either amateur or professional poetry printed in this column mrs airs celia van cott N 3rd ard east provo utah began her writing when she was twelve years old A poem the fairies was published in the juvenile instructor at that time she received as payment a book the cave dwellers which is the prize possession of her children today but the urge to write was inconstant until a few years later when she was a student in a southern california school here she began to publish poems again since that time she has been a consistent producer and is today a recognized poet publishing widely within her own state in speech magazine chicago a magazine to which she is is a regular contributor to many many anthologies chief of which are the globe christmas lyrics and american I 1 inen e n po poets ets of 1937 and a frequent newspaper verse L m f lri ib butor u to r besides poetry mrs airs van cott writes juvenile stories and juvenile verse she is a member of the league of western writers it was through 3 her efforts that a writers chapter was organized in her home city she was president of this group the second year of its organization and is at present state director from the provo chapter to the state league her sonnets have strength and validity as well as beauty her juvenile ju venile poems are picture poems and have exquisite imagery imagination and humor she is the mother of four daughters and looks scarcely older than they many another poet owes his start to her encouragement and helpful criticism summer is almost gone soon well feel the icy breath upon our hill clip INTERIM and read it again then it is a beautiful shakespearian sonnet |