By Sharon Leighton PEl’s literary magazine, cmre, is publishing its d issue this week.

osture, founded, edited, published by David ses and Nick Grant, put tWO issues in its first ester, Jan.—Apr., 1983. 0 issues for the 1983-84 00] yeaf are planned.

he idea of a literary gazine originated with ses. “I knew there were a of potentially fine writers there," he says. He felt people whose writing not yet attained a pro- ional quality needed a a chance to be lished, a chance to their skill, and ouragement to do so.

e took his idea to Grant, se response was favor- . “I thought it would be he says. “I thought it Id be exciting for us and iting for the writers.”

he project has developed > more than the magazine 1f. Last semester, The nmiltee, a playrby Nick nt, was produced under auspices of Posture. ns for {the future include production “of emore cut-written plays, the lication of longer stories can be fitted into the

than the editors saw at its founding. They that this is due to ingements, such as ses, jobs and other acurricular acitivities, on

e major difficulty en- tered by both editors is of rejecting unsuitable issions. When a poet, ‘ someone they w, comes to them with a which he thinks is

feeling, the situation is than comfortable. “We zed that our opinions are opinions,” explained es, “but, as editors, we to stand by them. ’ ’

rant agrees. He selects silargely by an emotion, eling or recognition of lly, based on- a wide mg of good poetry. This es it hard to explain tly why he is rejecting em. Some poems will am one or tworfine lines, as the poem as a whole notcome up to that .ard, it cannot be"

unless it is among the best work in the issue. Yet, as writers, they find it difficult to be objective about their own work. A writer may think something he wrote excellent shortly after writing it, then later change his mind. “One of my poems,” he says, “was pub- lished in the last issue, and now I cringe whenever I see it.”

The “general standard for acceptance is, simply, good

writing. Some of the qualities ‘

the editors value are imagi- nation, excitement,~ insight, and originality.‘ The Content of the poem has to be of values rhyme and rhythm alone do not make a poem.

Unlike some editors of

593, Grant bring it to life again PEI definitely has , the right Posture

literary magazines, they do not insist on any one style or form of writing. Moses says, “We try to take the best of all the different kinds that are submitted.”

They— are looking for sub- missions, not only of peotry, but of short prose, fictional or nonfictional, full-length short stories, and short plays, for production rather than publication. - "

On Friday, January 20, at 1:30 pm. the .writers pub-

lished in the current issue are ' :invited to meet in the English * lounge * to?

discuss , the magazine and their contri- butions. Anyone interested in- becoming a new contributor

is welcome 0t join the editors .

there at 2:30pm.

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