Journal Issue
The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Geraldine Seelemire’s Bitter Creek. The poem organizes description through sentence-length lines around “Like a querulous old red cow”; emphasis shifts through image, enjambment, and changes in syntactic pace, bringing machines and accelerated travel into the magazine’s field of subjects. Elsewhere, Who Cannot Hear and Purple Mists 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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- Who Cannot Hear — Ruth Aughiltree [Poem, p. 155]
- Purple Mists — Noel Stearn [Poem, p. 156]
- Winter — Anne Hendrickson [Poem, p. 157]
- The Spanish Exile — Floy Bernice Palmer [Poem, p. 158]
- Interpretations After Music — Grace E. Bush [Poem, p. 159]
- Beach Musings — Ruth Clay Price [Poem, p. 160]
- Le Jongleur — Mable Holmes Parsons [Poem, p. 161]
- To Llasta — Adrian Huffman [Poem, p. 165]
- By the Carib Sea — Edna Worthley Underwood [Poem, p. 166]
- Ariel — Frances Hull Topping [Poem, p. 169]
- The Critic — Mavis Clare Barnett [Poem, p. 170]
- Ere Twilight Comes — A. M. Stephen [Poem, p. 172]
- You Will Remember — Clifford Gessler [Poem, p. 172]
- Apparition — Harold Vinal [Poem, p. 173]
- Two Unlamented — Ted Olson [Poem, p. 173]
- Desert Cry — Effie Whyte Watt [Poem, p. 174]
- Fragment — David P. Berenberg [Poem, p. 174]
- My Soul — Irene Stewart [Poem, p. 174]
- Rainy Sunday — Margaret Duncan Dravo [Poem, p. 175]
- Spring Inspection — Vincent Jones [Poem, p. 176]
- Bitter Creek — Geraldine Seelemire [Poem, p. 176]
- Seeing — Naneen Burnap [Poem, p. 177]
- Episode — Julia Birk [Poem, p. 177]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 5, no. 6, March 1926. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.