Journal Issue
Notes on an Editorial Board Meeting by Walter Lowenfels gives Trace no. 37 its clearest point of entry, while To Appear in Trace No. 38 and Towards Print by Gil Orlovitz widen the issue’s field. Dated May–June 1960, this substantial number indexes 20 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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- Publication Information [Contribution, p. 5]
- Notes on an Editorial Board Meeting — Walter Lowenfels [Contribution, p. 6]
- To Appear in Trace No. 38 [Contribution, p. 10]
- Towards Print — Gil Orlovitz [Essay, p. 11]
- A Dialogue for Two Poets — Gil Orlovitz [Contribution, p. 11]
- Editors (and Others) Write [Correspondence, p. 15]
- That Big Beat Word: Love! [Contribution, p. 15]
- Clarence Major (Coercion) [Contribution, p. 17]
- Robert Vaughan (Editor, Element) [Contribution, p. 20]
- Finnegan — Guy Daniels [Contribution, p. 24]
- A Sketch — Guy Daniels [Contribution, p. 24]
- ‘Action—Strike’ [Contribution, p. 32]
- A Cultural Lobotomy in the West — S. H. Sanfield [Contribution, p. 36]
- Angry Young Men — Ruth Forbes Sherry [Contribution, p. 40]
- Some Items Received [Contribution, p. 46]
- Two Guest Reviews [Review, p. 62]
- A Panegyric [Contribution, p. 62]
- And Some Conjunctions [Contribution, p. 63]
- James Colvin’s Blast [Contribution, p. 66]
- Addenda [Editorial, p. 69]
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Trace, no. 37 (May–June 1960). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.