Journal Issue
Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Elizabeth J. Coatsworth’s The Dance. The poem moves through deliberately uneven lines around “His eagle feathers sway from side to side”; syntax and speaking rhythm take over work once assigned to a regular foot, bringing ordinary experience as formally unsettled lyric material into the magazine’s field of subjects. May Williams Ward’s Upon Reading Sandburg’s “Limited” answers it from another angle: it builds by refrain and recurrence around “Where are you going? said a man on the train”; repetition carries the poem’s turn rather than merely decorating it. 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.
Contributors
- Beulah May
- Elizabeth J. Coatsworth
- May Williams Ward
- Charlotte W. Thurston
- G. W. Dresbach
- Julia Johnson Davis
- Thos. V. Calkins
- Antoinette DeCoursey Patterson
More contributors (24)
- Marvin Luter Hill
- Geo. Brandon Saul
- Dorothy E. Collins
- Ames Peterson
- Power Dalton
- Neeta Marquis
- E. Richard Shipp
- Elizabeth Davie
- E. G. Dexter
- Harry Noyes Pratt
- Annice Calland
- Eda Lou Walton
- Frances Beebe
- Virgil Geddes
- Graham Du Bois
- Miriam Allen deFord
- Jean Paine
- Walter Evans Kidd
- Edith Boyden Holway
- Roberta Lynn
- Gilbert Harry Doane
- Elizabeth La Dow
- M. Doris Hutchins
- H. Thompson Rich
Publication details
Full contents
- The Canyon Trail — Beulah May [Poem, p. 3]
- The Dance — Elizabeth J. Coatsworth [Poem, p. 4]
- Song of the Plains — May Williams Ward [Poem, p. 5]
- Upon Reading Sandburg’s “Limited” — May Williams Ward [Poem, p. 6]
- The Living Presence — Charlotte W. Thurston [Poem, p. 6]
- Storm-Rain Songs — G. W. Dresbach [Poem, p. 7]
- Songs of a Little Boy — Julia Johnson Davis [Poem, p. 8]
- Return — Julia Johnson Davis [Poem, p. 8]
- A Southwestern Day Cycle — Thos. V. Calkins [Poem, p. 9]
- The Sunset Hills — Antoinette DeCoursey Patterson [Poem, p. 10]
- To Madeleine — Marvin Luter Hill [Poem, p. 11]
- Three Poems — Geo. Brandon Saul [Poem, p. 12]
- To the Lover of Any Girl — Dorothy E. Collins [Poem, p. 14]
- Autumn — Ames Peterson [Poem, p. 15]
- I Will Be Still — Power Dalton [Poem, p. 15]
- April Dusk — Neeta Marquis [Poem, p. 16]
- True Harmony — E. Richard Shipp [Poem, p. 17]
- The Abandoned House — E. Richard Shipp [Poem, p. 17]
- Summer Sketches of Southern California — Elizabeth Davie [Poem, p. 18]
- Summer Shower — E. G. Dexter [Poem, p. 20]
- The Wood of Tara — Harry Noyes Pratt [Poem, p. 21]
- Songs of the Desert — Annice Calland [Poem, p. 22]
- Fuchsias — Eda Lou Walton [Poem, p. 23]
- The First Death (A Fragment) — Frances Beebe [Poem, p. 24]
- Singers of Song — Virgil Geddes [Poem, p. 25]
- The Silent Dining Room — Graham Du Bois [Poem, p. 25]
- Lady of Morning — Miriam Allen deFord [Poem, p. 26]
- Youth — Jean Paine [Poem, p. 26]
- Blue Morning — Walter Evans Kidd [Poem, p. 27]
- The Onlooker — Edith Boyden Holway [Poem, p. 27]
- Glacier Point — Roberta Lynn [Poem, p. 28]
- To a Roman Tear-Bottle, Found Near Tyre — Gilbert Harry Doane [Poem, p. 29]
- Language — Elizabeth La Dow [Poem, p. 29]
- Finis — M. Doris Hutchins [Poem, p. 30]
- Beauty — H. Thompson Rich [Poem, p. 30]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 3, no. 5, September 1923. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.