Evening star., 1937-12-19
By NC. r.
<HERE seems to have been an out

@HEHE seems 70 nave pcen An OUT
break Of poetry in the Dis
trict and outlying parts lately.
Il A communication from Henry
Harrison, poetry publisher. informs
the reviewer that In the recently is
sued volume, American Women
Poets, 1887" no less than rs local
authors are represented.
The list of these writer's is as fol-
lows: Marion H. Addington, Dorothy
P. Albaugh, Dora e. Baker, Floy Boy
er, Henrietta p. Dunlap, Isabel Likens
Gates, Anne Kelledy Gilbert, Alice
Lawry Gould, Marion Everett Hayn,
Blanche c. Hewlett, Thea Neumann
Hreachmack, Georgia Douglas john
son, Charlotte Kellogg, Ruth Merlin,
Ramona Moore, Beatrice M. Murphy,
Pauline Ogden, Lorraine Patterson,
Lucia M. Pitts, Lulu Minerva Schultz,
Margaret Throckmorton, Alice Tor
bert, Marjorie Fraser Webster, Mary
N. s. Whiteley, Betsy Winter and Alice
L. Wood.
The editor of the volume. Margery
Mansfield, explains that the collec-
ton Is limited to work not hitherto
published in any anthology. More
than $4,000 poems by 5000 women
were submitted for consideration.
HARRlsoN also announces that
his house has another anthology
under preparation in which the Dis
trict has an interest. 1t is the forth
coming North America Book of
Verse" 1t is to be edited by 81 poets,
the editor for the District being Mrs.
1nez Taylor, well-known to Washing
ton rs editor Of the quarterly poetry
magazine, Blue Moon"
A ND hard on the heels Of this an
nouncement from Harrison comes
communication from Beacon Publi-
cations, saying that two Washington
poets are represented in a forthcom-
ing anthology sponsored by that house.
These are Miss Gabrielle M. Jacobs
and Louise Blackmar Hart. Miss
Hart is special attorney in the De-
PNi Va ~ aollIC. NILSS UdCOUS Is
Well-knoWn feature writer for WASH
lngton newspapers.
THEN, as If this were not enough
activity among local writer's, Har-
rlSon also sends bulletin informing
the reviewer that his house is Just
releasing an anthology Of work by
Maryland poets. This volume is called
Three Hundred Years: The Poets and
Poetry Of Maryland" 1t will attempt
to cover the outstanding singers of
the neighboring State over its entire
history and will include not only ex-
amples OF their work, but critical BIZ
ographies.
The % poets represented in the
volume are Edgar Allan Poe, Sidney
Lanier, Lizette Woodwork Reese
Sally Bruce Kinsolving. Francis Scott
Key, George Alsop, Ebenezer Cook
r. Lewis, DR.. John Shaw, Edward
Coote Pinkney, James Ryder Randall,
John Banister Tabb, Daniel MacIntyre
Henderson, Daniel Henderson, Harriet
Winton Davis. Homer c. House, Dell
Raley. Loker Raley, Lillian Sue Keech,
Maria Briscoe Croker, Hervey Allen,
Edgar Daniel Kramer and Frederick
Thayer, jr.
The editor of the Maryland anthol-
ogy is Loker Raley He has been as
sisted in preparing the volume by Leo
pold Proser.
Interesting stories of little-known
poets are brought out in the bio
graphical chapters of the work There
is, for example, the history of George
Alsop, who wrote in 1866. Alsop came
to the colony as slave. He witnessed
one of the terrible Indian massacres
which took place in Maryland's early
history. recording that the savages
cut chunks of flesh from their living
victims, and feasted enthusiastically
before the eyes of those whom they
were torturing.
Dr.. John Shaw was an early poet
who combined verse making with the
practice of medicine, being accredited
with having stamped out foul dis
ease which threatened the inhabitants
of one OF the coastal islands.
Edward Pinkney, whose work is also
included, was a young naval officer
and son Of the famous William Pink