VAN DOREN WILL READ HIS OWN POETY TODAY

Mark Van Doren, noted American poet, will give a reading of his own poems, open to the public without change, this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Emerson D. The reading is sponsored by the Morris Gray Poetry Fund of Harvard.

Associate Professor of English at Columbia University, Van Doren is well known as a poet, critic, and editor. He has written studies of Thoreau, Dryden, and Edwin Arlington Robinson. His own books of verse include: "Spring Thunder," "7 P. M.," "Now the Sky," 'A Winter Diary," "The Last Look," and others. He is editor of the "Oxford Book of American Prose," "American Poets 1930-1930," "An Autobiography of America," and "An Anthology of World Poetry."