Journal Issue
Wolf-Dawn by Geraldine Seelemire marks the issue’s most conspicuous opening toward modernist practice. The poem compresses perception into short, image-bearing lines around “Dawn slunk along the hills”; 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, Christmas Shopping and Roman Marching Song 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 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
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Full contents
- Christmas Shopping — Siddie Joe Johnson [Poem, p. 61]
- Roman Marching Song — Chard Powers Smith [Poem, p. 62]
- The Bulbul and the Child — Mary Brent Whiteside [Poem, p. 63]
- A Venetian Night — Charles Howard Marsh [Poem, p. 64]
- Northumberland — Edith B. Spaulding [Poem, p. 68]
- Second Hand — Noel Stearn [Poem, p. 69]
- Storm — Jessie Lemont [Poem, p. 70]
- Evening — Ada Hastings Hedges [Poem, p. 70]
- Winter Sunset — Faith Baldwin [Poem, p. 71]
- Wolf-Dawn — Geraldine Seelemire [Poem, p. 71]
- Two in a Garden — Lucile Perry Ames [Poem, p. 72]
- Jungle-Trailing Along the Equator — Alice Ferrin Hensey [Poem, p. 74]
- Comparisons — Bessie Pryor Palmer [Poem, p. 75]
- Morning — Lucile Perry Ames [Poem, p. 75]
- To Edna, Pointing Out Pictures — Will Chamberlain [Poem, p. 76]
- A Woman Looks at Weather — Olive Brooks [Poem, p. 77]
- In Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon — A. B. Leigh [Poem, p. 78]
- My Mistress Whimsey — Lilian Lewis [Poem, p. 80]
- Diana Knows — Norma Miller [Poem, p. 80]
- Sea Moods — Beatrice Tibeau [Poem, p. 81]
- Into Your Beautiful Stillness — Seth Jehiel Felt [Poem, p. 81]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 6, no. 3, December 1926. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.