The Journals
Little magazines, independent reviews, and literary communities from Southern California’s past.
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Trace
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Variegation, Vol. VII, No. 25 (Winter 1952)
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Hanson Kellogg’s 3-poem run, from Palomar to New Year’s Eve, gives this issue its clearest formal center.
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Trace, No. 1 (June 1952)
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Towards Print by James Boyer May gives Trace no. 1 its clearest point of entry, while the editorial material that follows it widens the issue’s field.
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The Lyric West, Vol. 6, No. 2 (November 1926)
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Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Ethel Romig Fuller’s Voices.
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Recurrence, Vol. III, No. 10 (Autumn 1952)
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No Return and Day of Rest give the issue a strong interest in shifting scenes and states of mind.
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Coastlines, Vol. II, No. 2 (Winter 1956–57)
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America’s Literary Underground gives this issue its argumentative center, with Lawrence Lipton setting the terms.
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Variegation, Vol. IV, No. 3 (Summer 1949)
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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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