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Lyric West - A Modernist Anthology gathers material from The Lyric West into a book that can stand on its own. It brings together 111 entries, beginning with Gaydiang by Ruth Comfort Mitchell, Quid Iuvat Ornato by Weare Holbrook, and Redondo by the Sea by Pauline Barrington. The selection turns a large run of periodical material into something a reader can enter in an afternoon and return to over time. It is not meant to replace the journal’s history. Instead, it offers a clear doorway: representative writing, useful names, and enough context to connect each piece with the publication that first carried it.

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  • Gaydiang — Ruth Comfort Mitchell [Poem]
  • Quid Iuvat Ornato — Weare Holbrook [Poem]
  • Redondo by the Sea — Pauline Barrington [Poem]
  • High Noon on the Slough — Ernest Dexter [Poem]
  • [The Western Pegasus Is an Uncut — D. B. Kimball [Poem]
  • On the Overland — Rolfe Humphries [Poem]
  • Risus Eram Positis — Weare Holbrook [Poem]
  • September Nights — Hazel Farkasch [Poem]
  • Mist — Bernardine Algert [Poem]
  • Los Angeles — Pauline Barrington [Poem]
  • Chinatown — Edna Goit Brintnall [Poem]
  • In the Telephone Book — Eda Lu Walton [Poem]
  • Streetscape — Roubaix de l’Abrie Richey [Poem]
  • Pictures on My Japanese Fan — Georgia Rowles [Poem]
  • February — Rolfe Humphries [Poem]
  • The Drifter’s Wife — Weare Holbrook [Poem]
  • Montana Wives — Gwendolen Haste [Poem]
  • Prima Donna of the Negro Jazz — Ellen Coit Elliott [Poem]
  • Calcutta — Mabel W. Phillips [Poem]
  • A Late Passer — Hazel Hall [Poem]
  • Evening on Tahoe — Rolfe Humphries [Poem]
  • Summer Movement — Virgil Geddes [Poem]
  • Biography — Gwendolyn Haste [Poem]
  • Ching Loo Dreams — Jack Hyatt, Jr [Poem]
  • The Desert Passes — Cornelia Meade Scarborough [Poem]
  • Spell of Granite — John Drury [Poem]
  • Chamber Music — R. Ellsworth Larson [Poem]
  • Contemporary Literature — Hugo Folliard [Poem]
  • Tsi Ouan Wishes to Believe in — Paul Eldridge [Poem]
  • Pursuit — Hazel Hall [Poem]
  • The Almond Blossoms — Bertha McE. Knipe [Poem]
  • Wheels and Wings — Jessica Nelson North [Poem]
  • The Gallant Warrior — Belle Turnbull [Poem]
  • A Study in Pastels — Ruth E. McKee [Poem]
  • Neisan — Pauline Garner Curran [Poem]
  • A Ride — Marjorie Loomis Cherry [Poem]
  • A Woman’s Diary — Belle Turnbull [Poem]
  • The Dance — Elizabeth J. Coatsworth [Poem]
  • Upon Reading Sandburg’s “Limited” — May Williams Ward [Poem]
  • Summer Sketches of Southern California — Elizabeth Davie [Poem]
  • A Pastel — Leonora F. Curtin [Poem]
  • The Belle of the Ball — Weare Holbrook [Poem]
  • Adjustment — Laura Riding Gottschalk [Poem]
  • A Typewriter — George Maxwell [Poem]
  • Post Office Sketches — Joseph Franklin Poland [Poem]
  • Purple Window Glass — Edith Miniter [Poem]
  • Careers — Medora C. Addison [Poem]
  • To a Photograph in a Show-Case Near Hull — Arthur H. Nethercot [Poem]
  • The Progress of Youth — Anna Kalfus Spero [Poem]
  • The Woman of Windy Flat — Gwendolen Haste [Poem]
  • Spring River: Flowers and Moon at Night — Chang Yo-hsu [Poem]
  • Tankas from the Japanese — Roy Temple House [Poem]
  • Quarry Workmen — Virgil Geddes [Poem]
  • In a Railway Station — Mary Sinton Leitch [Poem]
  • Gas Well Blow-Out — Martha Webster [Poem]
  • Wind Prints of a Dancer — Charmian von Wiegand [Poem]
  • Sonnet — Hildegarde Flanner [Poem]
  • Hand in Sunlight — Hazel Hall [Poem]
  • Two French Towns — William E. Scotten, Jr [Poem]
  • Three Sketches — E. Richard Shipp [Poem]
  • Threnody — Weare Holbrook [Poem]
  • Sestina of the Spieler — John Northern Hilliard [Poem]
  • The Mill — Beulah May [Poem]
  • Autumn, New Mexico — Ruth Lechlitner [Poem]
  • Beauty Trembled Close — George H. Dillon [Poem]
  • Dawn — William E. Scotten, Jr [Poem]
  • River Songs — Norma Miller [Poem]
  • The Color of the Night — Beulah May [Poem]
  • Inland — Joan Dareth Prosper [Poem]
  • Ether — Mary Brennan Clapp [Poem]
  • Two Sonnets — Paul Tanaquil [Poem]
  • Giovanni Malatesta — Miriam Allen de Ford [Poem]
  • Earthquake — Richard A. Summers [Poem]
  • On Guard — Wilson O. Clough [Poem]
  • Paulo Majora Canamus — Paul Tanaquil [Poem]
  • Chrysanthemums — Lucy Hale Sturges [Poem]
  • To One Grown Blasé — Wilson O. Clough [Poem]
  • The Artist Receives Notice of a Bequest — Patterson Greene [Poem]
  • The Parable of Deepness — Vachel Lindsay [Poem]
  • In a Cathedral — Alaine Boswell [Poem]
  • City Rivers — Frances Wierman [Poem]
  • Defiance — Mollie Prager [Poem]
  • The Orient Visits New York — Chi-Hwang Chu and Edna Worthley Underwood [Poem]
  • Montana Lake — Robert E. Wade, Jr [Poem]
  • Variations and Fugue on a Well-Known — Justus Grun [Poem]
  • Bitter Creek — Geraldine Seelemire [Poem]
  • Shelley in Our House — Jo Hartman [Poem]
  • Diathesis — Grace Stone Coates [Poem]
  • Some Mothers to Some Daughters — Sarah Foss Wolverton [Poem]
  • Translations of Original Japanese Tanka — Yorozu Tsurumi [Poem]
  • Incompatible — Irene Stewart [Poem]
  • In the Province of Shantung — B. Y. Williams [Poem]
  • Voices — Ethel Romig Fuller [Poem]
  • Wolf-Dawn — Geraldine Seelemire [Poem]
  • Dancing Girl of Utica — Ruth Clay Price [Poem]
  • The Drama’s End — Clinton Scollard [Poem]
  • Life — Porter Myron Chaffee [Poem]
  • The Clavilux — Madge Ohe [Poem]
  • Lone Willow — Dana Burnet [Poem]
  • Whistles — Henri Faust [Poem]
  • Moon-Storm — Dana Burnet [Poem]
  • Legerdemain — N. Bryllion Fagin [Poem]
  • The New Bridge — Ethel Romig Fuller [Poem]
  • Cerebral — Lilian White Spencer [Poem]
  • Bees in the Honeysuckle — Ethel Brodt Wilson [Poem]
  • Poems for a Chinese Anthology — Arthur Jonson [Poem]
  • A Warrior Returns Home — Richard Shelley [Poem]
  • Samarkand — Lucy H. Sturges [Poem]
  • Machinery — Frances Wierman [Poem]
  • An Apostrophe to the Moon — Mollie Prager [Poem]
  • Impotency — Mollie Prager [Poem]
  • I See a Star — May Williams Ward [Poem]
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*Lyric West - A Modernist Anthology*. Text/Tech Journals, digital edition, 2026.