Journal Issue
In A Woman’s Diary, Belle Turnbull brings the issue’s modernist pressure into focus. The poem compresses perception into short, image-bearing lines around “All the lazy afternoon”; 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, Now I Shall March and Tapestry 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. The issue catches Los Angeles poetry culture in transition: polished song remains public currency, but modernist compression and contemporary speech have begun to alter what a lyric can hold.
Contributors
- Mary Sinton Leitch
- Narcisse Wood
- Clinton Scollard
- Virginia Lyne Tunstall
- Henrietta C. Barr
- Edna G. Henry
- David Morton
- Grace Clementine Howes
More contributors (30)
- Abigail Cresson
- Raymond Alvin Berry
- Mary Cormack McDougall
- Anne Lloyd
- Elizabeth Mitchell
- Harold Herbert Rogers
- Jack Hyatt, Jr
- Faith Baldwin
- Wright Field
- Belle Turnbull
- Marion Ethel Hamilton
- Mary Carolyn Davies
- Mary Graham Lund
- Nora B. Cunningham
- Gwendolen Haste
- Ruth Loomis Skeen
- Joseph T. Shipley
- Alice Rogers Hager
- Margaret Tod Ritter
- Rolfe Humphries
- John R. McCarthy
- Katherine Howard
- Claribel Weeks Avery
- Lillian Rogers
- Martha Banning Thomas
- Jessie Vaughn Harrier
- D. N. Lehmer
- M. L. Cherry
- Aldis Dunbar
- Ethelean Tyson Gaw
Publication details
Full contents
- Now I Shall March — Mary Sinton Leitch [Poem, p. 3]
- Tapestry — Narcisse Wood [Poem, p. 4]
- A Pacific Dayfall — Clinton Scollard [Poem, p. 5]
- Credo — Virginia Lyne Tunstall [Poem, p. 5]
- A Dune Song — Henrietta C. Barr [Poem, p. 6]
- Hesperoyucca — Edna G. Henry [Poem, p. 7]
- One Guest — David Morton [Poem, p. 7]
- The Mountains — Grace Clementine Howes [Poem, p. 8]
- Distance — Abigail Cresson [Poem, p. 9]
- My Field — Abigail Cresson [Poem, p. 9]
- The Buoys of Prayer — Raymond Alvin Berry [Poem, p. 10]
- A Woman’s Song — Mary Cormack McDougall [Poem, p. 10]
- My Iris Army — Anne Lloyd [Poem, p. 11]
- A Tragedy — Elizabeth Mitchell [Poem, p. 12]
- To Fay — Harold Herbert Rogers [Poem, p. 12]
- Steps on the Stair — Jack Hyatt, Jr [Poem, p. 13]
- The Street of Fine Houses — Faith Baldwin [Poem, p. 14]
- Impressions — Wright Field [Poem, p. 14]
- A Woman’s Diary — Belle Turnbull [Poem, p. 15]
- Phyllis — Marion Ethel Hamilton [Poem, p. 17]
- A Week-End Dance — Mary Carolyn Davies [Poem, p. 18]
- At My Window — Mary Graham Lund [Poem, p. 18]
- Earth’s Sweetness — Nora B. Cunningham [Poem, p. 19]
- The Haunted Ring — Gwendolen Haste [Poem, p. 19]
- The Archbishop’s Garden — Ruth Loomis Skeen [Poem, p. 20]
- By Night — Joseph T. Shipley [Poem, p. 20]
- Remembered — Alice Rogers Hager [Poem, p. 21]
- Sonata Pathetique — Margaret Tod Ritter [Poem, p. 22]
- Solitary — Rolfe Humphries [Poem, p. 22]
- A Grey Day — John R. McCarthy [Poem, p. 23]
- Coast Range — Katherine Howard [Poem, p. 23]
- Cinderella — Claribel Weeks Avery [Poem, p. 24]
- The Italian Church in Chinatown — Lillian Rogers [Poem, p. 24]
- Reward — Martha Banning Thomas [Poem, p. 25]
- The Campers — Jessie Vaughn Harrier [Poem, p. 25]
- The Stroller — D. N. Lehmer [Poem, p. 26]
- Coming Home — M. L. Cherry [Poem, p. 26]
- Forever and Ever — Aldis Dunbar [Poem, p. 27]
- Alice Meynell — Ethelean Tyson Gaw [Poem, p. 29]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 3, no. 4, August 1923. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.