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The Lyric West, Vol. 1, No. 10 (February 1922)

The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Rolfe Humphries’s February.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 2, No. 7 (November 1922)

Spell of Granite by John Drury marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 2, No. 9 (January 1923)

The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Hugo Folliard’s Contemporary Literature.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 2, No. 11 (March 1923)

Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Hazel Hall’s Pursuit.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 4, No. 6 (March 1925)

Modernism enters this number through Inland by Joan Dareth Prosper.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 5, No. 1 (October 1925)

The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Patterson Greene’s The Artist Receives Notice of a Bequest.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 5, No. 3 (December 1925)

Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Frances Wierman’s City Rivers.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 5, No. 5 (February 1926)

Modernism enters this number through Montana Lake by Robert E. Wade, Jr. The poem organizes description through sentence-length lines around “The Japanese painters know”; emphasis shifts through image, enjambment, and changes in syntactic pace, bringing East Asian forms and translated perspectives into the magazine’s field of subjects.

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The Lyric West, Vol. 6, No. 8 (May 1927)

Moon-Storm by Dana Burnet marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice.

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Variegation, No. 1 (January 1946)

In the Colors of the Heart and City Seen from an Airplane give the issue a strong interest in water and weather.

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Variegation, Vol. II, No. 2 (Spring 1947)

Marcia Masters Jennings’s 3-poem run, from Little Biography to Spring Ride and Wood Song, gives this issue its clearest formal center.

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Variegation, Vol. II, No. 4 (Autumn 1947)

E. MacDermott Johnston’s 4-poem run, from Anno Domini 1947 to Politician, gives this issue its clearest formal center.

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Variegation, Vol. III, No. 2 (Spring 1948)

Edge of Doom and Geometric Survival give the issue a strong interest in shifting scenes and states of mind.

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Variegation, Vol. III, No. 4 (Autumn 1948)

Hanson Kellogg’s 5-poem run, from Dedicatory Invocation for a Public Library to Valley Harbor, gives this issue its clearest formal center.

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Variegation, Vol. IV, No. 1 (Winter 1949)

John Atkins’s 3-poem run, from The Flags are Out to The Dry Soul, gives this issue its clearest formal center.

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Variegation, Vol. IV, No. 2 (Spring 1949)

A Date Palm Holds Dreams and The Refining Hour give the issue a strong interest in shifting scenes and states of mind.

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Variegation, Vol. IV, No. 3 (Summer 1949)

Mary Pearson’s 3-poem run, from For a Blind Man to Prelude to a Storm, gives this issue its clearest formal center.

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Variegation, Vol. X, No. 38 (Spring 1955)

Cecil Kyle’s 3-poem run, from Farewell to Offerings to Aphrodite, gives this issue its clearest formal center.

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Recurrence, No. 28 (February 1959)

Vent de Mai and Femme Immolée give the issue a strong interest in water and weather.

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Temblor, No. 4 (1986)

Road, Roadsides and the Disparate Frames of Sequence by Gustaf Sobin sets the first measure of the issue.

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Temblor, No. 9 (1989)

Temblor ran to ten issues between 1985 and 1989, edited by Leland Hickman in North Hollywood.

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Anthology

Lyric West – A Modernist Anthology

Lyric West - A Modernist Anthology gathers material from The Lyric West into a book that can stand on its own.

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Anthology

The Graphic – Poetry and Its Criticism

This anthology, The Graphic - Poetry and Its Criticism, opens a welcoming route into The Graphic.

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