Journal Issue
Here the break with genteel lyric convention begins in Frances Wierman’s City Rivers. The poem organizes description through sentence-length lines around “A vision of rivers! Turbulent traffic streams”; emphasis shifts through image, enjambment, and changes in syntactic pace, bringing the modern city into the magazine’s field of subjects. Mollie Prager’s Defiance answers it from another angle: it compresses perception into short, image-bearing lines around “How I hate them!”; pause and white space become part of the measure. 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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- Vision — Margaret Widdemer [Poem, p. 65]
- The Dryads — Lilian White Spencer [Poem, p. 66]
- Flame — Edith Mirick [Poem, p. 72]
- Silver — Mirza French Mackay [Poem, p. 73]
- A Sea Diver Speaks to His Inland Love — Walter Evans Kidd [Poem, p. 74]
- The Romantic — David P. Berenberg [Poem, p. 75]
- The Sea at Carrenage — Annice Calland [Poem, p. 75]
- Voices — Virginia Stait [Poem, p. 76]
- In Heaven — Grace Reini [Poem, p. 77]
- Hearing Debussy’s “L’Aprés Midi d’un — John Jenkins [Poem, p. 78]
- A Bookworm Speaks — Lori Petri [Poem, p. 79]
- City Rivers — Frances Wierman [Poem, p. 79]
- From off the Bay — Frances Hull Topping [Poem, p. 80]
- Defiance — Mollie Prager [Poem, p. 81]
- Inhibition — Joseph Upper [Poem, p. 81]
- A Lad of Londonderry — Pauline Curran [Poem, p. 82]
- The Witch Maiden — Beulah May [Poem, p. 83]
- On a Wild Jack-Rabbit — J. Corson Miller [Poem, p. 83]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 5, no. 3, December 1925. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.