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Academia & the Young Poet as Breadwinner by William Heyen gives Trace no. 56 its clearest point of entry, while After Reading Auden’s the Sphinx by Lee Malone and Towards Print (in Trace) by James Boyer May widen the issue’s field. Dated Spring 1965, this expansive number indexes 62 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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- Academia & the Young Poet as Breadwinner — William Heyen [Essay, p. 6]
- After Reading Auden’s the Sphinx — Lee Malone [Poem, p. 13]
- Towards Print (in Trace) — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 14]
- Editors and others Write [Correspondence, p. 16]
- New Prison Writing Club Needs Materials — James Singer [Contribution, p. 18]
- The Human Must Come Through — D. V. Smith [Correspondence, p. 19]
- Novelist of the Business World — Abigail Ann Hamblen [Essay, p. 20]
- The Means of Cinema (a Review of Ak Aisatsui) — A. Fredric Franklyn [Review, p. 26]
- The Chronicle [Reference, p. 36]
- Games, Sunsets, and Human Features — George Thompson [Essay, p. 37]
- A Contra-view & ‘the Point for Literature’ [Contribution, p. 37]
- A Masque of Meanings — Joanne de Longchamps [Poem, p. 43]
- Poem to Be Read Silently — David Cornel DeJong [Poem, p. 50]
- Macbeth — William Packard [Contribution, p. 57]
- Diurnal Report — Paul B. Newman [Poem, p. 66]
- Passenger Pigeons — Carl Schemmerling [Poem, p. 69]
- Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 71]
- Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 73]
- Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 75]
- Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 77]
- Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 79]
- Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 81]
- Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 83]
- Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 85]
- Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 87]
- Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 89]
- Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 91]
- Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 93]
- Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 95]
- Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 97]
- Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 99]
- Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 102]
- Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 104]
- Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 106]
- Inquiry for Today’s Intent Among New Books & Periodicals — Milton VanSickle [Contribution, p. 109]
- MODERN FICTION STUDIES (Vol. X, No. 3 — 75c) is devoted to eight articles on Camus. Some of the writers, such as M M. Madison, Naomi C. Jackson, and Ben Stoltzfus, are concerned primarily with his philosophy; others (Richard Lehan, J. H. Matthews, and Brian T. Fitch) are concerned with his literary merits. Glenn Sandstrom compares Meursault of THE STRANGER with Julien Sorel of THE RED AND THE BLACK, while Marilyn Gaddis Rose makes Meursault into the Pharmakos of the ancient scapegoat syndrome. This issue, by the way, also includes over eleven pages listing studies of Camus to date [Contribution, p. 110]
- The White Shirts [Contribution, p. 114]
- In Astrology’s Defense — M. D. Elevitch [Essay, p. 116]
- Advertisement [Contribution, p. 119]
- Macmillan — W. B. Yates [Contribution, p. 119]
- Scribner — W. B. Yates [Contribution, p. 119]
- Houghton Mifflin — Henry Holt [Contribution, p. 119]
- Henry Holt — Houghton Mifflin [Contribution, p. 119]
- The Old Huntsman and Other Poems, Siegfried Sassoon, E. P Dutton [Poem, p. 120]
- Magazines [Contribution, p. 120]
- The Far Hills, by John Hideyo Hamamura — John Hideyo Hamamura [Contribution, p. 59]
- B. Newman [Contribution, p. 61]
- Man on a Park Bench, by Ray Jerome — Ray Jerome [Poem, p. 62]
- The Creative Window continued Identity, by Ruth Forbes Sherry — Ruth Forbes Sherry [Contribution, p. 63]
- Hamilton [Contribution, p. 64]
- Novella : Passenger Pigeons, by Carl Schemmerling — Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 65]
- Photo-Art : The American Negro in New York City, by Martin S. Dworkin (incl. cover) — Martin S. Dworkin [Artwork, p. 85]
- More Poems : After Reading Auden’s ‘The Sphinx,’ by Lee Malone — Lee Malone [Poem, p. 5]
- The Snows of Winter, by Robert Lowry — Robert Lowry [Poem, p. 100]
- Essays & Articles Academia & The Young Poet as Breadwinner, by William Heyen 1 Towards Print (In Trace), by James Boyer May — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 6]
- Novelist of the Business World, by Abigail Ann Hamblem 9 The Means of Cinema, by A. Fredric Franklyn — A. Fredric Franklyn [Essay, p. 13]
- Sunset, And Human Features, by George Thompson — George Thompson [Essay, p. 30]
- Inquiry for Today’s Intent, by Milton VanSickle — Milton VanSickle [Essay, p. 94]
- Astrology’s Defense, by M. D. Elevitch — M. D. Elevitch [Essay, p. 99]
- Editors (and others) Write Yankee Captain . . ., by Sue Abbott Boyd — Sue Abbott Boyd [Correspondence, p. 7]
- Writing Club . . ., by James Singer — James Singer [Contribution, p. 8]
- Come Through, by D. V. Smith — D. V. Smith [Contribution, p. 8]
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Trace, no. 56 (Spring 1965). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.