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poet - Amy Belle Adams of Patten Maine - teaching English at the Academy in [?] Maine. She won first prize for her long narrative poem in the Bread Load Anthology [?] out by Middlebury College, Vermont - where Robert Frost teaches in summer. Miss Adams' narrative of [??] who was a figure in the historic Aroostook rebellion - is a well done poem - and I like to help all Maine poets in person all I can. Perhaps the two could contribute a signed copy of the anthology to the Library though I can't assume authority in such matters. Do you know the name of Sheldon Christian in Brunswick - he writes me to ask if I will lend him a copy of my poem as he is collecting material for another anthology of Maine poems [?] over by a person whose name is not reliable to me - one Hewey Harrison of New York - an aggressive [?] suspect - who gets out books of poems of people who are craving to be printed - and they either pay or agree to buy copies of the book - I resent his being in Maine - but there is an awful poetry racket going on now all over