Journal Issue
Towards Print (selected Poetries : Immediate Ancestries) by James Boyer May gives Trace no. 66 its clearest point of entry, while The Robbers of Publishers’ Row by Curtis W. Casewit and Edward Thomas by Neville Braybrooke widen the issue’s field. Dated 1967, this substantial number indexes 37 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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- Towards Print (selected Poetries : Immediate Ancestries) — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 6]
- The Robbers of Publishers’ Row — Curtis W. Casewit [Contribution, p. 9]
- Edward Thomas — Neville Braybrooke [Contribution, p. 21]
- A Tired Horse — Knute Skinner [Essay, p. 25]
- Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 29]
- Far East Gossip — James Bullard Kennedy [Correspondence, p. 30]
- ‘Like Farting Annie Laurie Through a Keyhole’ — M. D. Elevitch [Correspondence, p. 30]
- Again: Why Not Pay Writers? — A. C. Perkins [Correspondence, p. 32]
- Exceptions to Hugh Fox on Latin Mags — Margaret Randall [Correspondence, p. 33]
- Brief on Hart Crane & the Artists of Technology — John Baker [Contribution, p. 35]
- Wallace Stevens — John Tryford [Essay, p. 44]
- (John Tryford’s Random Notes) — Wallace Stevens [Contribution, p. 44]
- The Private Investigators of an Undertow — Christopher Bursk [Contribution, p. 69]
- (To His Coy Mistress) — Played Upon Rosewood and Steel Strings [Contribution, p. 75]
- Martha’s Portionpies — D. V. Smith [Contribution, p. 78]
- Green Heavens — A. P. Schroeder [Contribution, p. 79]
- An Exchange — A. P. Schroeder [Contribution, p. 80]
- Day of Rest — George Abbe [Contribution, p. 81]
- George Abbe [Contribution, p. 91]
- The Mechanical Sweetheart — Gerald Alper [Contribution, p. 94]
- A (w)hors(e)s Opera [Contribution, p. 103]
- — A Drama of the Old West — [Contribution, p. 103]
- Until — [Contribution, p. 106]
- Thomas Bledsoe [Contribution, p. 109]
- Enter Fortinbras — James D. Houston [Contribution, p. 111]
- Scene : Fortinbras and the Holy Grail [Contribution, p. 112]
- Program Notes [Contribution, p. 113]
- Epilogue (to Be Spoken by Fortinbras from a Dark Stage) [Contribution, p. 113]
- Harvest — Marion Woodall [Contribution, p. 122]
- The Retiring Professor Looks Out Across the Pepsi Generation, as if a Fierce Dove Went Forth [Contribution, p. 123]
- THE WAR GAME (IS A) PRIVILEGE (BUT) DON’T LOOK BACK (Or: But First, A Little Song . . .) — A. Fredric Franklyn [Contribution, p. 126]
- Dangers of Workshop Criticism — Dean Lipton [Essay, p. 150]
- William Packard: Poetry in the Theatre—v [Contribution, p. 159]
- Towards Print: Continued from Page 314 — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 170]
- J. Michael Yates [Contribution, p. 171]
- The Chronicle [Reference, p. 182]
- The 1967-68 Address List [Reference, p. 183]
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Trace, no. 66 (1967). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.