Journal Issue
The Creative Window continued gives Trace no. 59 its clearest point of entry, while Essays & Articles and The Imagination of the Amateur by Felix Stefanile widen the issue’s field. Dated Winter 1966, this expansive number indexes 55 pieces or named sections, moving between literary argument, creative work, reviews, correspondence, and the practical business of little-magazine culture. The order matters: recurring editorial features sit beside contributions with their own formal and critical demands, so the magazine reads as an active conversation rather than a neutral container. The reader’s edition makes that sequence easy to follow; the original scan preserves the cover, page design, advertisements, visual material, and directory apparatus that locate the writing in its first publication. Together, the two editions show James Boyer May sustaining both a literary forum and a working map of the independent publishing network.
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- The Creative Window continued [Contribution, p. 6]
- Essays & Articles [Essay, p. 7]
- Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 8]
- The Imagination of the Amateur — Felix Stefanile [Essay, p. 9]
- Towards Print (further Observations on ‘living Literature’) — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 21]
- Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 23]
- Seeks Mastery of Humor, Spontaneity at the Card-punch [Contribution, p. 25]
- Waiting for the Impact — Helmer O. Oleson [Contribution, p. 29]
- The Cinematic Short Story Forms — A. Fredric Franklyn [Essay, p. 31]
- (a Review of Kwai Dan) — A. Fredric Franklyn [Review, p. 31]
- Black Hair [Contribution, p. 38]
- The Chronicle [Reference, p. 54]
- Tomorrow Supplants the Pistol — Christopher Perret [Poem, p. 57]
- Writing the Poem — Joanne de Longchamps [Poem, p. 58]
- Names for things! — Joanne de Longchamps [Contribution, p. 59]
- Mathematics of imagination, a measure of memory — [Contribution, p. 60]
- Diana — A. Fredric Franklyn [Contribution, p. 61]
- The Artist as a Young Struggle — Jory Sherman [Poem, p. 63]
- Science of the Pathfinder [Contribution, p. 66]
- empathy, sympathy, & psychopathy [Contribution, p. 66]
- One Seal [Contribution, p. 68]
- Standard Tunes — Heywood Haut [Poem, p. 70]
- The Mushroom Hunters — William Tillson [Poem, p. 76]
- II [Contribution, p. 76]
- III [Contribution, p. 77]
- IV — William Tillson [Contribution, p. 77]
- V [Contribution, p. 78]
- VI [Contribution, p. 78]
- VII [Contribution, p. 78]
- Jezebel and Joseph — Sam A. Eisenstein [Fiction, p. 80]
- Sam A. Eisenstein [Contribution, p. 85]
- C’est La Guerre — Carol Stager [Fiction, p. 88]
- Carol Stager [Contribution, p. 91]
- Carol Stager [Contribution, p. 94]
- Three Paragraph Story — Dorothy Gravage [Fiction, p. 101]
- HE-HE — David Garcia [Fiction, p. 101]
- Lysistrata — G. W Sherman [Contribution, p. 106]
- The Modern Poets : an Anthology — James Hiner [Contribution, p. 107]
- The Creative Window continued Stories : Jezebel and Joseph, by Sam A. Eisenstein 379 C’est La Guerre, by Carol Stager — Carol Stager [Contribution, p. 384]
- Paragraph Story, by Dorothy Gravage — Dorothy Gravage [Fiction, p. 393]
- Playlet : He-he, by David Garcia — David Garcia [Contribution, p. 394]
- Offshoots from New Grafts : Death of a Hero, by Thomas Bledsoe — Thomas Bledsoe [Contribution, p. 396]
- 397 Lysistrata, by G. W. Sherman — G. W Sherman [Contribution, p. 398]
- Modern Poets: An Anthology, by James Hiner — James Hiner [Contribution, p. 399]
- Super, by Walter Darring — Walter Darring [Contribution, p. 400]
- Photo-Art : Shikara, by Stella Snead — Stella Snead [Artwork, p. 401]
- where tides pulsate with constellations’, by Marlis Schwieger 402 ‘in winter beaches, receding seas leave twig tracings’, by Stella Snead 405 Sand Trees, by Stella Snead — Stella Snead [Contribution, p. 406]
- Beach — By Shadow, by Stella Snead — Stella Snead [Contribution, p. 407]
- Marlis Schwieger [Contribution, p. 408]
- More Poems : Wanderlust, by George Ryan — George Ryan [Poem, p. 330]
- Taneum Creek, by Richard Hugo — Richard Hugo [Poem, p. 430]
- Hattie — I, by Earl E. LaClair — Earl E. LaClair [Contribution, p. 430]
- Essays & Articles The Imagination of the Amateur, by Felix Stefanile — Felix Stefanile [Essay, p. 317]
- Further Observations on Living Literature, by James Boyer May 326 The Cinematic Short Story Forms, by A. Fredric Franklyn — A. Fredric Franklyn [Contribution, p. 331]
- Editors (and others) Write Who Knows the Length of the Umbilical Knot?, by J. E. L Eldridge 327 Seeks Mastery of Humor, Spontaneity at the Card-Punch, by D. McKee 327 Declares ‘Describees’ Altered by Reading Descriptions, by Felix Singer 329 Waiting for the Impact, by Helmer O. Oleson — Helmer O. Oleson [Correspondence, p. 330]
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Trace, no. 59 (Winter 1966). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.