Journal Issue
In a Railway Station by Mary Sinton Leitch marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice. The poem organizes a speaking voice through sentence-length lines around “How strangely memory serves us! Here tonight”; shifts in syntax make inward argument audible without abandoning stanza, bringing machines and accelerated travel into the magazine’s field of subjects. Martha Webster’s Gas Well Blow-Out answers it from another angle: it uses rhetorical punctuation to disturb an otherwise measured line around “They were not lost”; exclamation and question become rhythmic events. The presence of a named form such as Sonnet 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
- Richard Burton
- H. G. Smith
- Ellen Coit Elliott
- Sabra Conner
- John Richard Moreland
- Virginia Taylor McCormick
- Power Dalton
- Margaret Adelaide Wilson
More contributors (29)
- Catherine Parmenter
- Margaret Ely Webb
- Dorothy Renick
- Lucy H. Sturges
- Alice Fay
- George Sterling
- Elizabeth D. Preston
- Grace Noll Crowell
- Constance Lindsay Skinner
- Sarah Bixby Smith
- G. W. Dresbach
- Mary Sinton Leitch
- Helene Mullins
- Hildegarde Flanner
- Mary Carolyn Davies
- Idella Purnell
- Harry Noyes Pratt
- Ellen Morrill Mills
- Charles Winship
- Mary Brent Whiteside
- Katharine Howard
- C. D. Stewart
- Elliott C. Lincoln
- Faith Baldwin
- Lucy A. Curran
- John Curtis Underwood
- Clark Ashton Smith
- Martha Webster
- Ruth E. McKee
Publication details
Full contents
- Spring in the Park — Richard Burton [Poem, p. 3]
- The Mist — H. G. Smith [Poem, p. 4]
- The Dreamer — H. G. Smith [Poem, p. 5]
- Tag! — Ellen Coit Elliott [Poem, p. 5]
- The Breeze — Sabra Conner [Poem, p. 5]
- “A Singing Wind Has Waked the Silent — John Richard Moreland [Poem, p. 6]
- La Petite Fiancee — Virginia Taylor McCormick [Poem, p. 6]
- It Was a Wind — Power Dalton [Poem, p. 6]
- I Kissed My Love Today — Margaret Adelaide Wilson [Poem, p. 7]
- The First Crocus — Catherine Parmenter [Poem, p. 8]
- The Woods Are Still — Margaret Ely Webb [Poem, p. 8]
- True Thomas — Dorothy Renick [Poem, p. 9]
- Cho-Cho-San — Lucy H. Sturges [Poem, p. 9]
- Voices of the Cities — Alice Fay [Poem, p. 10]
- From the Valley — George Sterling [Poem, p. 12]
- Trapped — Elizabeth D. Preston [Poem, p. 12]
- Mountain Sketches — Grace Noll Crowell [Poem, p. 13]
- Swiya’s Songs Beside Running Water — Constance Lindsay Skinner [Poem, p. 14]
- Bypath — Sarah Bixby Smith [Poem, p. 15]
- Desert Morning — G. W. Dresbach [Poem, p. 15]
- In a Railway Station — Mary Sinton Leitch [Poem, p. 16]
- Old Attic — Helene Mullins [Poem, p. 17]
- Sonnet — Hildegarde Flanner [Poem, p. 18]
- Dumb — Hildegarde Flanner [Poem, p. 18]
- The Lost Gift — Mary Carolyn Davies [Poem, p. 19]
- Repenting — Idella Purnell [Poem, p. 19]
- The Helmsman — Harry Noyes Pratt [Poem, p. 20]
- Inland — Ellen Morrill Mills [Poem, p. 21]
- Unification — Charles Winship [Poem, p. 22]
- Sea Rhythm — Mary Brent Whiteside [Poem, p. 22]
- By San Diego — Katharine Howard [Poem, p. 23]
- Now I Would Tell You the Things — C. D. Stewart [Poem, p. 23]
- Evening — Elliott C. Lincoln [Poem, p. 24]
- The Silent Singer — Faith Baldwin [Poem, p. 25]
- The Seeding — Lucy A. Curran [Poem, p. 26]
- Burros — John Curtis Underwood [Poem, p. 27]
- The Song of Aviol — Clark Ashton Smith [Poem, p. 28]
- Gas Well Blow-Out — Martha Webster [Poem, p. 28]
- Spring Sadness — Ruth E. McKee [Poem, p. 29]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 3, no. 11, March 1924. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.