Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Clare Harner's "Immortality" selected by Hope Ridings Miller for reprinting in the Washington Post on Christmas Eve, 1934

On Monday, December 24, 1934 The Washington Post reprinted Clare Harner's original poem "Immortality" with five others, all by women. 

On page 12 under the head of "Gleanings from Current Verse," Hope Ridings Miller selected six poems from various poetry magazines including two from The Gypsy, "Immortality" by Clare Harner and "Christmas" by Inez Rice.

  1.  "Christmas" by Inez Rice, from THE GYPSY
  2. "Falling Snow" by Marie Barton, from CHOIR PRACTICE
  3. "Christmas in Tucson" by Berta Hart Nance, from KALEIDOGRAPH
  4. "Quaker Women at Meeting" by Sara Bundy Pence, from QUAKER BONNETS described as "a presentation brochure published by the Herald-Silhouettes Press" of Ontario, California.
  5. "Immortality" by Clare Harner, from THE GYPSY
  6. "The Star Child" by Claribell Weeks Avery, from DECIMAL
One unfortunate typo appeared in the Washington Post version of Clare Harner's "Immortality" which reads
"I am the day transcending light" 
where The Gypsy had 
"I am the day transcending night."