The Journals
Little magazines, independent reviews, and literary communities from Southern California’s past.
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Trace
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The Journals recovers the little magazines, independent reviews, and literary communities that shaped poetry in Los Angeles and Southern California.
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Trace, No. 23 (August 1957)
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Poetry and Mind by James Russell Grant gives Trace no. 23 its clearest point of entry, while Towards Print by the Editor of Trace by James Boyer May and For the Artist, Nine Suggestions by Felix Singer widen the issue’s field.
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The Lyric West, Vol. 1, No. 10 (February 1922)
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The number’s sharpest formal turn belongs to Rolfe Humphries’s February.
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Temblor, No. 7 (1988)
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Temblor ran to ten issues between 1985 and 1989, edited by Leland Hickman from an apartment on Cahuenga Boulevard in North Hollywood.
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Coastlines, Vol. I, No. 2 (Summer 1955)
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Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens gives this issue its argumentative center, with Gene Frumkin setting the terms.
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Recurrence, Vol. VII, No. 26 (Autumn 1956)
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Spider Web and Goodbye give the issue a strong interest in shifting scenes and states of mind.
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Recurrence, Vol. V, No. 18 (Autumn 1954)
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Advent and Mutation give the issue a strong interest in natural observation.
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