Newberry Library - Bender, Eleanor M., Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1971-1972

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Title Bender, Eleanor M., Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1971-1972

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date 1971-1972

Place United States

Language English

Subjects Authors, American, Bohemianism, New Left, Radicalism in literature, Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Illinois

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User-Contributed Transcription 3.for the fourth time. A friend suggested I try Stephens College. He felt they just might go for the idea of subsidizing a little magazine. The creative writing staff there approved of the idea and so did the Dean. I was able to get that last issue, No. 10, out immediately with no problem. Then came No. 11! It was agreed that members of the staff would act as advisory editors. So that when I & my students - all 3 of them - had selected the poems I met with my advisory board. I have never experienced anything like it. They did not like any of the poems I selected. At least not all three of them could agree on any one poem. They were agressive [sic], vindictive and absolutely absurd in their criticism of what I was doing. One member voiced the opinion that if a poem was not up to the standard of what he called, in fact mimed from T.S. Eliiot, "High" art, then it should not be published. I could obviously rant on for hours about what went on in that meeting. The crux of it is that I can go ahead with this issue but for the next issue I must not accept any poems without their prior approval. I am just to weed out the "bad" stuff

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 2 Folder 114

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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