Americus Weekly Recorder in Americus, Georgia

A Poet's Bitter Experience in the City Newsroom

The piece reflects on poets who work as journalists and brokers, detailing one novelist who hides his authorship behind an alias. It describes publishing costs, pay, and the harsh reception of poetry, as a friend endures negative notices while his wife supports his craft. It quotes a Boston Transcript style inquiry into the future poet. The forest report notes 10,000,000 acres used yearly for fuel and lumber and 10,000,000 burned in fires, with total forest area under 450,000,000 acres.