Journal Issue
Pegasus begins as a deliberately small San Diego magazine: W. H. Lench is named editor and publisher, and the opening roster balances local coastal imagery with a wider lyric register. Edwin Renold Lane's view of Loma and La Playa anchors the number in the harbor city, while poems by Dorothy Page, Katharine Howard, Ernest Walsh, Amy Sebree Smith, Fred Gronberg, and others move among dawns, ships, desert crossings, and intimate encounters. The closing comment asks for work from a literary public the editor plainly believed was present but dispersed. The named form A Sonnet to the Dawn sits beside shorter songs and descriptive lyrics, making the issue’s craft visible in rhyme, stanza, and carefully managed closure. That combination gives the San Diego number a regional modernity of its own: harbor, desert, city, and intimate address enter print through inherited forms being adjusted to Western subjects.
Contributors
- Katharine Howard
- Ernest Walsh
- Louisa Stahel
- Edwin Renold Lane
- Dorothy Page
- W. H. Lench
- Yetta Kay Stoddard
- Lila Serles
More contributors (2)
Publication details
Full contents
- A Sonnet to the Dawn — Katharine Howard [Poem, p. 1]
- Life — Ernest Walsh [Poem, p. 2]
- The Cup — Louisa Stahel [Poem, p. 3]
- The Sun Goes Down — Edwin Renold Lane [Poem, p. 3]
- Song — Dorothy Page [Poem, p. 4]
- Encounter — Dorothy Page [Poem, p. 4]
- A Lighthouse — W. H. Lench [Poem, p. 5]
- The Fishing Fleet — W. H. Lench [Poem, p. 5]
- Sonnet — W. H. Lench [Poem, p. 5]
- Columbine — Yetta Kay Stoddard [Poem, p. 6]
- Crossing the Mojave — Lila Serles [Poem, p. 6]
- Night-Skies — Amy Sebree Smith [Poem, p. 7]
- Dawn-Sea — Amy Sebree Smith [Poem, p. 7]
- First Love — Fred Gronberg [Poem, p. 7]
- Bombast — Fred Gronberg [Poem, p. 8]
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*Pegasus*, vol. 1, no. 1, January 1923. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.