THE ANTHOLOGIST SINCE 1927 THE LITERARY AND FINE ARTS JOURNAL OF RUTGERS COLLEGE G U I D E L I N E S Every semester, as the staff begins the weary round again, as we're flooded with submissions that have to be reconciled with our visions of art & craft, we wince to see that art & craft aren't always bedfellows. It ought to be obvious that a well-crafted piece of writing--one without grammatical & syntactic mistakes, without formal glitches, without a tin ear--can't always be artistically successful: grammarians aren't poets. But it's troubling to see that artistically interesting pieces can be mutated & felled by errors in craftsmanship: 'their' for 'they're'; 'brake' for 'break'; 'bother' for 'mother'; 'sausage' for 'hostage'. At a college magazine, this latter problem is widespread; after all, a college is full of "angsty,' sensitive writers with good things to say, but who don't yet have the poetic discipline to refrain from hurling words on the page like sand on a Pollock canvas. One axiom we might recommend, then, as our general guideline, is this: "convenientia verba, deinde conveniens affectus." First the right words, then the right feeling. Soon, with the right words, the feeling will take care of itself.