Journal Issue
The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Edith Miniter’s Purple Window Glass. The poem organizes description through sentence-length lines around “The Squire’s house, we call it”; emphasis shifts through image, enjambment, and changes in syntactic pace, bringing the modern city into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, Gifts and The Carpenter keep the experimental turn in contact with the issue’s broader lyric range. The presence of a named form such as Sonnet of Undefeat makes the contrast especially legible: innovation occurs beside inherited measure, not after its disappearance. In Los Angeles, modernism does not erase regional or traditional verse; it puts new pressure on both, asking poets to treat rhythm and perception as unsettled problems.
Contributors
- John Northern Hilliard
- Siddie Joe Johnson
- Josephine Van Dolzen Pease
- Julia Powell
- Oscar Williams
- Clare Shipman
- Margaret Tod Ritter
- Sydney King Russell
More contributors (28)
- E. MacAlister Hepburn
- Myrtle Levy Gaylord
- Grace Noll Crowell
- Claribel W. Avery
- Idella Purnell
- Elizabeth J. Coatsworth
- Marvin Luter Hill
- Harold Vinal
- Eda Lou Walton
- Beth Cheney Nichols
- Antoinette DeCoursey Patterson
- Henrietta C. Penny
- Helen Frazee-Bower
- William Ellwell Onions
- Glenn Ward Dresbach
- Edith Miniter
- Georgia Currier Nyman
- Ethel Van Cise
- Sarah Bixby Smith
- Winifred Heath
- Lois Atkins
- Jack Hyatt, Jr
- Lilian White Spencer
- Olive Young Traver
- J. Corson Miller
- Ethel M. Colson
- Mary Sinton Leitch
- Paul S. Nickerson
Publication details
Full contents
- Gifts — John Northern Hilliard [Poem, p. 3]
- The Carpenter — Siddie Joe Johnson [Poem, p. 4]
- Natale — Josephine Van Dolzen Pease [Poem, p. 4]
- Noel — Josephine Van Dolzen Pease [Poem, p. 5]
- Gifts — Julia Powell [Poem, p. 5]
- At Love’s Door — Oscar Williams [Poem, p. 5]
- In the Light of Christmas Candles — Clare Shipman [Poem, p. 6]
- Sonnet of Undefeat — Margaret Tod Ritter [Poem, p. 6]
- Alms — Sydney King Russell [Poem, p. 7]
- To Her Whose Lover Lies Dead — E. MacAlister Hepburn [Poem, p. 7]
- Wild Weather — Julia Powell [Poem, p. 8]
- I Would Be Silent — Myrtle Levy Gaylord [Poem, p. 8]
- Poems — Grace Noll Crowell [Poem, p. 9]
- Brave Beauty — Claribel W. Avery [Poem, p. 9]
- Music — Idella Purnell [Poem, p. 10]
- The Three Gifts — Elizabeth J. Coatsworth [Poem, p. 11]
- The Doubter — Marvin Luter Hill [Poem, p. 12]
- Sonnet — Harold Vinal [Poem, p. 12]
- Upon Reading the Browning Letters — Eda Lou Walton [Poem, p. 13]
- The Torch — Beth Cheney Nichols [Poem, p. 13]
- MY SONG! — Beth Cheney Nichols [Poem, p. 13]
- In Old Siena — Antoinette DeCoursey Patterson [Poem, p. 14]
- The North Wind — Henrietta C. Penny [Poem, p. 16]
- Winter Night in San Francisco Harbor — Helen Frazee-Bower [Poem, p. 16]
- Wind — William Ellwell Onions [Poem, p. 17]
- A Cock Crows Near the Desert — Glenn Ward Dresbach [Poem, p. 17]
- Purple Window Glass — Edith Miniter [Poem, p. 18]
- And Autumn Passes — Georgia Currier Nyman [Poem, p. 20]
- San Diego Bay — Ethel Van Cise [Poem, p. 20]
- My Coyote — Sarah Bixby Smith [Poem, p. 21]
- To a Certain Poet — Winifred Heath [Poem, p. 21]
- Hill-Charm — Lois Atkins [Poem, p. 22]
- Prayer — Jack Hyatt, Jr [Poem, p. 22]
- To Walt Whitman — Lilian White Spencer [Poem, p. 23]
- Youth Has Not Flown — Olive Young Traver [Poem, p. 23]
- Street-Lights — J. Corson Miller [Poem, p. 23]
- Fusion — Ethel M. Colson [Poem, p. 24]
- To Barbara — Mary Sinton Leitch [Poem, p. 24]
- The Betrothal — Paul S. Nickerson [Poem, p. 25]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 3, no. 8, December 1923. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.