Journal Issue
The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Hugo Folliard’s Contemporary Literature. The poem compresses perception into short, image-bearing lines around “There is something strange in words”; pause and white space become part of the measure, bringing ordinary experience as formally unsettled lyric material into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, The New Frontiers and Agatha keep the experimental turn in contact with the issue’s broader lyric range. Short lyrics, longer sequences, and unevenly unfolding free verse share the same contents list, making formal difference part of the issue’s reading rhythm. In Los Angeles, modernism does not erase regional or traditional verse; it puts new pressure on both, asking poets to treat rhythm and perception as unsettled problems.
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- The New Frontiers — Margery Swett [Poem, p. 3]
- Agatha — Gwynnyth J. Ritchey [Poem, p. 4]
- The Minuet — Paula Revere [Poem, p. 4]
- Promise — Joseph Andrew Galahad [Poem, p. 5]
- Conservative — Ted Olson [Poem, p. 5]
- The Last Divide — John Curtis Underwood [Poem, p. 6]
- The Critic — John Curtis Underwood [Poem, p. 7]
- My Love — Beatrice Stevens [Poem, p. 7]
- THE DYING FAVORITE SPEAKS — Snow Longley [Poem, p. 8]
- The Deserted House — Elizabeth K. McGowen [Poem, p. 10]
- To Earth’s Great Dreamers — H. Thompson Rich [Poem, p. 11]
- End of the Year — Albert Edmund Trombly [Poem, p. 11]
- Sycamores in Winter — Constance Lindsay Skinner [Poem, p. 12]
- Punishment — Marx C. Sabel [Poem, p. 12]
- Remembering — Marx G. Sabel [Poem, p. 12]
- Contemporary Literature — Hugo Folliard [Poem, p. 13]
- The Children and Thomas — Robert Alden Sanborn [Poem, p. 14]
- Deathless — Edna Goit Briatnall [Poem, p. 17]
- The End of the Feud — Grace Atherton Dennen [Poem, p. 18]
- I Hope That I Remember — Grace Atherton Dennen [Poem, p. 20]
- The Southern Cross — Charles J. Quirk [Poem, p. 21]
- Grand Coteau Louisiana — Charles J. Quirk [Poem, p. 21]
- Daybreak in the City — Charles J. Quirk [Poem, p. 21]
- The Painter — Claribel Weeks Avery [Poem, p. 28]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 2, no. 9, January 1923. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.