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! I i i V -4 1 III: i Wednesday, December 7, 1966 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Pa, Says Forrest Read I MO AM Poetry Forum: Outlet Creativity J dwiwg OK i I "l ROOM By RICK NICHOLS From The Chapel Hill Weeklv Forrest Read was just sit ting in Lenoir Hall idly pol ishing an apple on his lapel. A bald man came all the way across the dining room to his o !!,oad said- "Forrest Head?" Read nodded. "Mr. Read," said the man, I teach an oral interpreta tion class, a sort of speech class, down in Arkansas." The man paused. Read was look ing straight ahead. "Ah, in this class we read things like poems and analyze them. I was wondering. . .you must know a group of young writers or poets in this area . . .who would maybe want to come down and read for the class?. . .Ycu ARE the poetry man, aren't you?" "All the way to Arkansas?" said Read. The man sate he would talk to him in his of fice about it. Forrest Read IS the poetry' forum man. He started the forum when a course he was supposed tov teach in modern poetry was canceled because only three students signed up. The University-does not provide rooms for three-student classed. Read couldn't believe that poetry was dead in Chapel Hill. He was sure there was an "undercurrent" if not ' - i if i " . f ? ! 0jr i I I i - . , I' . r . w - r M v - - 'J'" 1 ft i - FORREST READ, an Instruc tor in the Department of Eng lish believed that people were "champing at the bit" to read their own poetry to an audi ence. Because of this, the UNC Poetry Forum came to pass. DTI I Photo by JockLauterer for classes, then at least for something. So, on Sept. 29 Read launch ed his first forum. He called it "The House that Jack Built (and other tales)" and more than one hundred persons showed up. With six forums under his belt now, Read feels that the. whole thing has been a "fan tastic success". "People are champing at the bit to read," he said. People are standing in the aisles to listen, too. At the fifth forum, "Poetry is the Politics of Freedom," 103 Bingham Hall was so packed that poetry fans had to perch on window sills and huddle on stairs. Not just college stu dents either but townspeo ple and high school students. Read now has programs worked out for forums well into next semester. Read's poetry forums are more than dry readings. One of the reasons for his success is t h e imaginative planning and promotion he puts into every forum before "it goes on stage". The second forum is a good example. Call it "Blind Man's Bluff." In this forum Read got together some poems and blocked out the author's name then, only a half an hour before the forum, he gave the poems to Profs. Shea, Lyons and Kinnard to read and ex pound upon extemporaneous ly. One of the poems was Eleanor Riggby by Beatle John Lennon. The audience loved it. Several weeks ago "Poetry of Protest" forum was tied in with the tenth anniversary of the Hungarian Revolt. Read himself read poems that he had translated from Hungari an for a book entitled "From The Hungarian Revolution" and Prof. Louis Lipsitz read some original works. The forum" encompasses readings of African poetry (by A f r i a a n students and Peace Corps Volunteers), . Baseball poetry in the spring (by members of the physical : reducration" department ) c and o'original poems by UNO's O.B. Hardison and Charles Wright. ; Like Read advertises on his signs, "It's for everybody, it's for free." And the signs: Each week Read's wife carves big lino leum blocks to pring the signs big red and yellow signs. On the signs are short - limbed elfen folk gesticulating and crowing about the next forum. The signs go up in Franklin Street windows and on cam pus. In an elevator a young girl spotted Read and asked him to look at a little poem she had written. A former UNC student now working on construction called Read to ask if he could read at one of the forums. There's a paradox some where. Only three students had signed up for that ill fated class in poetry and here they were by the hundreds r V-'w - : rr "''1 J ... n ;J ( I n '.. ; -r: : . - f Luncheon Special for Today Bacon Wrapped Sirloin Steaks W Tomato Sauce Choice of Two Vegetables Salad w Dressing - Beverage Bread & Butter Homemade Layer Cake 97c . DAILY CROSSWORD FAR FROM DRY readings of intellectual liberary scribblings, the UNC Poetry Forum is modern, amusing and stimulating. Founder Forrest Read is shown here as he opens one of the weekly readings before a crowd of over 100 crowded into a Bingham Hall lecture room. Read feels that the venture has been a overwhelming success because of the "It's for every body; it's for free" spirit in which it is conducted. DTH Photo by Jock Lauterer begging to read, flocking to listen. Read gets a puzzled look on his face when he tries to figure it out. "A graduate student told me," he said, "that she has spent most of her college ca reer engaged in the formal study of poetry and the 'great' poets. For her, poetry had lost its immediacy, its life; .! "She told me that the forum was the only contact she"; had with 'living' poetry, poetry that expressed the hopes arid desires of 'living' people try ing to write about what ought to be or should have been or could be." i The girl wanted to do some thing to help the forum and to keep up her 'contact' ;rNow phe-stypes.jStehcils:., f ...all hthe poehis Irea'd "at the forums.'" After the stencils are typed, the poems are mimeographed for a looseleaf binder that Read calls the UNC CHAP BOOK. These binders are in the Chapel Hill Public - li brary, the Bullshead Book shop, the University Library and other places in Town. 4? Like Read's forum, CHAP BOOK readers are growing every week. Undergraduates are reading it, graduate stu dents are reading it.-. lalong with faculty and townspeople and the high school set. "They're for everybody, they're for free." Read thinks his forum will help fill part of the vacuum that students often complain about at large universities. He thinks the forum will provide a place where they can talk about their "other worlds" the worlds that are more perfect, more beautiful, more, meaningful than the world they have to face every day. The forums don't have an audience so much as they have a congregation. The lai ty are the readers. And the lectern is more than a lec tern. Here the people from Chap el Hill and from the Univer sity can listen to the awk ward, along with the articu late and polished. They can listen to the sorrows and joys of "now" written by their :peers. The poems have mean ing for their "now" lives. Forrest Read, English pro- Unique Grandmother Is Student And More fessor, was in the front of 103 Bingham, wearing a bowtie, bobbing his head a little ner vously and chanting in a quavery voice. Two hundred were hunched in the wooden chairs. There was scattered clap ping at the end of the forum. No one charged out. Slowly the room emptied. A coed waited at the door. She was a transfer student. "This never could have hap pened at Catawba," she told Forrest Read. ACROSS I.Jacob's brother 5. Pecks 9. Forays 10. Mountain crest 12. Scandina vian capital 13. Deer's horn 14. Lures 16. Chinese length measure 17. Compass' point 18. Roman emperor 19. Rooter 20. Attempt 22. Gives 24. In the past 26. Apollo's son 27. Hair ointments 30. Slant 33. WWII spy outfit: abbr. " ' 34. Naomi's 36. Prosecutor: abbr. 37. Guidonian note 38. Fitted with stays 40. Title again 42. Guide 43. Reptile 44. Maguires 45. Colors, as cloth - 46. Japanese outcasts DOWX 1. March 26, 1967 2. River sediment 3. Decorate 4. 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