Ciardi Delivers Third Morris Gray Lecture

John Ciardi, who prefers to be called a poet who went to war rather than a war poet, gave the third in an annual series of Morris Gray readings yesterday afternoon in Sever 11.

Dwelling mostly on material written since the close of the war, the 30-year old English A instructor termed himself a "social poet," and said that he subscribes to the notion that a poet should write so as to be understood.

Ciardi's personal poetry corner during most of the war was the turret of a Saipan-based B-29.