Journal Issue
The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Pauline Garner Curran’s Neisan. The poem organizes description through sentence-length lines around “The koto loom is on the floor”; emphasis shifts through image, enjambment, and changes in syntactic pace, bringing East Asian forms and translated perspectives into the magazine’s field of subjects. Marjorie Loomis Cherry’s A Ride answers it from another angle: it organizes description through sentence-length lines around “The wind-shield misted with the rain”; emphasis shifts through image, enjambment, and changes in syntactic pace. 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 this Los Angeles setting, modernism appears less as a manifesto than as a widening of permissible rhythm, image, and subject within a magazine still hospitable to rhyme.
Contributors
- John Curtis Underwood
- George Sterling
- Norma Miller
- Marion C. Kells
- Beth Cheney Nichols
- Elinor Manning Prescott
- Idella Purnell
- William Griffith
More contributors (27)
- R. Helyn Martin
- Addie Cropsey Hudson
- William Foster Elliot
- John Northern Hilliard
- Elvira Foote
- Elizabeth G. Coatsworth
- Georgia Rowles
- Mary Sintou Leitch
- Dixie McCarty
- Frank Ernest Hill
- Reed Williams
- Gordon Malherbe Hillman
- Robert Louis Burgess
- Floyd Meredith
- S. Omar Barker
- Edith Miniter
- Mary Brennan Clapp
- Agnes M. Miall
- Andred W. Bunch
- Jean Paine
- Ben Field
- Susan Thompson
- Pauline Garner Curran
- Marjorie Loomis Cherry
- Vera Heathman Cole
- Martha Webster
- Edith Gutterson
Publication details
Full contents
- Interval — John Curtis Underwood [Poem, p. 3]
- The Flight — George Sterling [Poem, p. 4]
- June Midnight — Norma Miller [Poem, p. 6]
- My Crown — Marion C. Kells [Poem, p. 6]
- Spring Budding — Beth Cheney Nichols [Poem, p. 7]
- The Swallow — Elinor Manning Prescott [Poem, p. 7]
- Poetry — Idella Purnell [Poem, p. 8]
- Noon Song — Idella Purnell [Poem, p. 8]
- Ideal — William Griffith [Poem, p. 9]
- Failure — R. Helyn Martin [Poem, p. 9]
- The Singing Trail — Addie Cropsey Hudson [Poem, p. 10]
- Desert Dusk — William Foster Elliot [Poem, p. 11]
- Romance — John Northern Hilliard [Poem, p. 12]
- Redolence — Elvira Foote [Poem, p. 13]
- The Mystic — Elizabeth G. Coatsworth [Poem, p. 14]
- Tankas — Georgia Rowles [Poem, p. 14]
- The Secret — Mary Sintou Leitch [Poem, p. 15]
- The Ride — Dixie McCarty [Poem, p. 15]
- The Pass — Frank Ernest Hill [Poem, p. 16]
- Lines on a Piece of White Paper — Reed Williams [Poem, p. 17]
- Lucile — Gordon Malherbe Hillman [Poem, p. 17]
- I Rejoice That the Swallow — Robert Louis Burgess [Poem, p. 17]
- Sacrifice — Floyd Meredith [Poem, p. 18]
- Heritage — Floyd Meredith [Poem, p. 18]
- Foreknowledge — S. Omar Barker [Poem, p. 19]
- Flanders Field—Today — Edith Miniter [Poem, p. 19]
- Honey 3300 Years Old — Mary Brennan Clapp [Poem, p. 19]
- To a Portrait — Agnes M. Miall [Poem, p. 20]
- Sacrament — Andred W. Bunch [Poem, p. 20]
- A Worshipper — Jean Paine [Poem, p. 21]
- Winged Victory — Ben Field [Poem, p. 22]
- Prairie Night — Susan Thompson [Poem, p. 22]
- A Lighthouse — Pauline Garner Curran [Poem, p. 23]
- Neisan — Pauline Garner Curran [Poem, p. 23]
- Shadows — Pauline Garner Curran [Poem, p. 23]
- A Ride — Marjorie Loomis Cherry [Poem, p. 23]
- An Offering — Vera Heathman Cole [Poem, p. 23]
- A Wash-Piece — Martha Webster [Poem, p. 24]
- Yellow Acacia — Edith Gutterson [Poem, p. 24]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 3, no. 3, June 1923. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.