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. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
     cum“ , 
     
     “Think about it. Talk - a _ it. 
     
     ‘ Take action. > V  
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     “I like the taste ofa cold beer on a hot day, 
     
     but / certainly don't think you have to get the gang 
     
    

    
     together Wlth a couple ofcoses of beer just to celebrate 
     
    

    
     the fact you 've had 
     
    

    
     a bit ofexerC/se” 
     
    
   
   
    
     JOHN wooo 
     
     . 01 (MW: BMW Mk 1m. _ lSl 
     
    
   
   
    
     Health Same m 
     
     and Wellave Stem elvesomal 
     
     Canada Canada 
     
    
   
   
    
     .Succulent Seafood and Steaks" g 
     
     ,in a nostalgic setting 
     
     LEBANESE FOOD A SPECIALTY » 
     
     LICENSED & AIR CONDITIONED 
     
     Mon-Sat 11am to3am g 
     
     9 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sunday 4 to 12 
     
    
   
   
    
     81 University Ave. Charlottetown 
     
     892-7337 
     
     Right Downtown 
     
    
   
   
    
     Our food is popular with - 
     
     people of good taste. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Recommended in ‘ 
     
     “WHERE TO EAI 
     
     IN CANADA, 1983” 
     
    
   
   
    
     .- p Z? V$WW§W$§§$§W$$W K