Journal Issue
River Songs by Norma Miller marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice. The poem organizes a speaking voice through sentence-length lines around “The magnificence of your lacquered barge comes”; shifts in syntax make inward argument audible without abandoning stanza, bringing ordinary experience as formally unsettled lyric material into the magazine’s field of subjects. Beulah May’s The Color of the Night answers it from another angle: it organizes description through sentence-length lines around “You are to me the color of the night”; emphasis shifts through image, enjambment, and changes in syntactic pace. Short lyrics, longer sequences, and unevenly unfolding free verse share the same contents list, making formal difference part of the issue’s reading rhythm. In this Los Angeles setting, modernism appears less as a manifesto than as a widening of permissible rhythm, image, and subject within a magazine still hospitable to rhyme.
Contributors
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Full contents
- Faggots — Joan Dareth Prosper [Poem, p. 131]
- Two Poems — Sydney King Russell [Poem, p. 132]
- Paris — 1923 — Paul Tanaquil [Poem, p. 134]
- River Songs — Norma Miller [Poem, p. 135]
- The New Dimension — Charles Wharton Stork [Poem, p. 136]
- If — Ruth E. McKee [Poem, p. 138]
- Asphodel — Raymond Kresensky [Poem, p. 139]
- The Color of the Night — Beulah May [Poem, p. 140]
- April Afternoon, Point Loma — Winifred Davidson [Poem, p. 141]
- Two Lyrics — Betty Dickinson Frazee [Poem, p. 142]
- The Running Dawn — Pauline Garner Curran [Poem, p. 143]
- Three Poems — Frank Mitvalsky [Poem, p. 144]
- Bill Harper — Frances Wierman [Poem, p. 146]
- Completion — Mary Brent Whiteside [Poem, p. 149]
- Message — Robert Haven Schauffler [Poem, p. 150]
- In Bruton Churchyard — Mary Sinton Leitch [Poem, p. 151]
- To a Girl in a Blue Dress — Dorothy Hawley Cartwright [Poem, p. 152]
- View Point — Ruth Clay Price [Poem, p. 152]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 4, no. 5, February 1925. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.