Journal Issue
A Style for Action: Notes on Verse Drama by James Schevill gives Trace no. 17 its clearest point of entry, while Towards Print by James Boyer May and Alan Swallow widen the issue’s field. Dated June 1956, this substantial number indexes 13 pieces or named sections, moving between literary argument, creative work, reviews, correspondence, and the practical business of little-magazine culture. The order matters: recurring editorial features sit beside contributions with their own formal and critical demands, so the magazine reads as an active conversation rather than a neutral container. The reader’s edition makes that sequence easy to follow; the original scan preserves the cover, page design, advertisements, visual material, and directory apparatus that locate the writing in its first publication. Together, the two editions show James Boyer May sustaining both a literary forum and a working map of the independent publishing network.
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- A Style for Action: Notes on Verse Drama — James Schevill [Contribution, p. 4]
- Towards Print — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 11]
- Editors Write [Correspondence, p. 13]
- Alan Swallow [Contribution, p. 13]
- D. Vincent Smith [Contribution, p. 14]
- William H. Scarborough [Contribution, p. 14]
- Ronald Voigt [Contribution, p. 14]
- Fred Cogswell [Contribution, p. 15]
- Grace Ross [Contribution, p. 15]
- Interpreting the Approach Story — Helen Fowler [Contribution, p. 16]
- Some Items Received [Contribution, p. 22]
- Reports on Presses [Contribution, p. 25]
- Addenda [Editorial, p. 27]
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Trace, no. 17 (June 1956). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.