Yowls

"Poetry making," said a foreign correspondent of a Manhattan journal, "like other crafts, is unionized under the Soviet regime."

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Poet Sologub's activities, the Poet's Union met in Moscow and held an "Evening with the Poets."

Many "schools" were represented--symbolists, acmeists, futurists, centrifugalists, imaginists, Moscow Parnassians, poets proletarian, poets peasant, neoromantic, non -classic, constructive, aimless poets, nichevoki poets, poets aloof, high-brow and low-brow and poets independent.

The "Evening" started by a white-haired, grey-bearded professor giving a dissertation on Sologub. Then up jumped a poet symbolist; told how much better he was than Sologub, recited one, two, three, four of his poems; started to recite the fifth, but the audience had had enough. Shrieks shrill and roars raucous rent the atmosphere--the poet sadly sat down.

Seventy poets followed the Symbolist in rotation. Whenever one attempted to spout his third poem he was immediately howled down. In this way it was possible to end the meeting in a single "Evening."