Journal Issue
The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Clinton Scollard’s The Drama’s End. The poem organizes a speaking voice through sentence-length lines around “Quite casually remarked my new-found friend”; shifts in syntax make inward argument audible without abandoning stanza, bringing ordinary experience as formally unsettled lyric material into the magazine’s field of subjects. Porter Myron Chaffee’s Life answers it from another angle: it compresses perception into short, image-bearing lines around “Life is a street car”; 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.
Contributors
- Noel Stearn
- Alberta Bancroft
- Katharine Marie Barton
- Edith Mirick
- Sarah Foss Wolverton
- Robert A. Smith
- Edna Worthley Underwood
- Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni
More contributors (25)
- Elinor Chipp
- Frances Wierman
- Charles Howard Marsh
- Ramsay L. Harris
- A. M. Stephen
- W. W. Robinson
- C. T. Lanham
- Clinton Scollard
- Doris L. Bradley
- Edith Clarke Curtiss
- Cecil E. C. Hodgson
- Herbert Rose
- Ruby Weyburn Tobias
- Winifred Davidson
- Alice Ferrin Hensey
- Ethel Romig Fuller
- Ben Field
- Dorothy Stott Shaw
- Edith B. Spaulding
- Jessie Weber Kitt
- Lori Petri
- Laura DeWitt Soper
- Porter Myron Chaffee
- Elise Stearns
- Peggy Patching
Publication details
Full contents
- Choice — Noel Stearn [Poem, p. 121]
- Necessity — Alberta Bancroft [Poem, p. 122]
- Manna — Katharine Marie Barton [Poem, p. 123]
- Caravans — Edith Mirick [Poem, p. 123]
- Dead Trees — Sarah Foss Wolverton [Poem, p. 124]
- To the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra — Robert A. Smith [Poem, p. 125]
- Songs From the Andes — Edna Worthley Underwood [Poem, p. 126]
- Magdalene — Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni [Poem, p. 128]
- Awakening — Elinor Chipp [Poem, p. 128]
- Woman — Frances Wierman [Poem, p. 129]
- Of a Prostitute Redeemed — Charles Howard Marsh [Poem, p. 129]
- Ecclesiastes, 12: 1-7 — Ramsay L. Harris [Poem, p. 130]
- Challenge — A. M. Stephen [Poem, p. 131]
- Accents of Night — W. W. Robinson [Poem, p. 132]
- Armageddon — C. T. Lanham [Poem, p. 133]
- The Drama’s End — Clinton Scollard [Poem, p. 134]
- Hill Lament — Doris L. Bradley [Poem, p. 135]
- Sacrilege — Edith Clarke Curtiss [Poem, p. 136]
- Lady Wanderlust — Cecil E. C. Hodgson [Poem, p. 137]
- Mediocrity — Herbert Rose [Poem, p. 137]
- The Street of the Wind — Alberta Bancroft [Poem, p. 138]
- Storm — Ruby Weyburn Tobias [Poem, p. 139]
- In Storm — Winifred Davidson [Poem, p. 139]
- Carmen F., Half-Half — Alice Ferrin Hensey [Poem, p. 140]
- On Making a Fiddle — Ethel Romig Fuller [Poem, p. 143]
- Swords — Ben Field [Poem, p. 144]
- Rome — Dorothy Stott Shaw [Poem, p. 144]
- Words Unspoken — Edith B. Spaulding [Poem, p. 145]
- Penitence — Jessie Weber Kitt [Poem, p. 145]
- Blue — Lori Petri [Poem, p. 146]
- Red Rhododendrons — Laura DeWitt Soper [Poem, p. 146]
- Life — Porter Myron Chaffee [Poem, p. 146]
- Sky Egret — Elise Stearns [Poem, p. 147]
- Woven in Lavender — Peggy Patching [Poem, p. 147]
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*The Lyric West*, vol. 6, no. 5, February 1927. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.