Word: plotz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jamie Rosenthal's three poems effectively balance a somewhat playful surface tone against a subtle, controlled earnestness. Island co-founder John Plotz' "Clyde on Time" is interesting stylistically if not thematically, while Inez Hedges' clarity in "Crush" suffers only slightly from an overdose of subjectivity...
...organizers of Harvard-Radcliffe Warmth, Jed Somit '71, Richard Plotz '71 and Stephen Waterbury '71, were inspired by an already established Warmth at Columbia, the first and biggest of several such groups on New York City campuses...
Which is not to say that the Island is a freshman magazine; only three freshman have appeared in the publication so far. But Robert Shaw and John Plotz, both '69, were evidently no sooner settled in Wigglesworth than the project began to take shape; they have produced three mimeographed issues since mid-winter, publishing some of the best writers in Cambridge...
...present issue is bright and readable. Some time ago Mssrs. Shaw and Plotz were clever enough to offer a cash prize to draw contributors; as a result, there's not a bad poem in the issue, if we except Eric Anderson's extemporaneous blues price which I am not qualified to judge but did not enjoy reading. John Lewis' "Certitudes," which think the right word is "reassuring." His poems in the March issue, particularly "The Uses of Poetry," had more glitter, but Mr. Lewis is a consistently skilled and mature writer. This poem, an anatomy of a dying grandmother, works...
...contributions; it would seem that the Island's evident weakness--its mimeographed format and tiny circulation--is a hidden asset when it deals with genuinely kind people like Auden. But it takes a lot of wit and perseverence to collect as impressive an issue as this one; Shaw, Plotz a Co. have done it well and quietly. I hope they persist...