Extremes and Moderations: A Historical Archive of Los Angeles and Southern California Poetry
Explore every reader’s edition connected with this part of the documents archive.
Poetry Anthology
Edited by Brian Kim Stefans
The sixteen-poem Hard Light opens with four tightly different kinds of pressure in Helen Hunt Jackson: railroad danger, historical endurance, sacrificial ritual, and an…
View edition →
Poetry Anthology
Edited by Brian Kim Stefans
The expanded Hard Light is organized as six miniature selected-poem sequences. Laurence Edward Innes moves from live oak and canyon trail through desert night,…
View edition →
Poetry Anthology
Edited by Mel Weisburd, Morton Dimondstein
Estelle Gershgoren Novak constructs Los Angeles literary history as a collage of poems, testimony, editorials, letters, photographs, announcements, and visual art. The California Quarterly…
View edition →
Spanish-Language Poetry Anthology
Edited by Reynaldo Ruiz
Reynaldo Ruiz's Part II isolates the Spanish-language poetry archive at the center of Hispanic Poetry in Los Angeles, 1850-1900. Its sequence moves chronologically through…
View edition →
Bilingual Poetry Anthology and Critical Study
Edited by Luis A. Torres
Luis A. Torres organizes seventy-one bilingual poems from El Clamor Publico, El Nuevo Mundo, and La Gaceta into eight sections: lyrical, occasional, philosophical, religious,…
View edition →
Poetry Anthology
Edited by James Boyer May, Thomas McGrath, Peter Yates
The book begins in Mae Babitz’s living room and reads like a public poetry series transferred to paper: eighteen Los Angeles poets, grouped by…
View edition →
Poetry Anthology
Edited by James Boyer May
James Boyer May’s eight-poet sequence is held together less by a program than by abrupt changes of scale and method. Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin opens…
View edition →
Poetry Anthology
Edited by Snow Longley Housh, Roy Towner Thompson, Leslie Nelson Jennings
The anthology begins with Jean Baker addressing a student and ends with Jake Zeitlin’s hushed “A Whispered Song,” a span that makes its regional…
View edition →
Poetry Anthology
Edited by Louis Wann, Allison Gaw, Roy T. Thompson
Prepared for the University of Southern California's fiftieth anniversary, this 1930 collection prints ninety-six poems by thirty-three current and former students. Its editors call…
View edition →
Poetry Anthology
Compiled by Verse Writers' Club of Southern California
The Verse Writers' Club of Southern California described this 1923-1924 anthology as the product of a critic-led process: poems were presented at regular meetings,…
View edition →
Poetry Anthology
Edited by Grove Brown
Manual Arts High School’s alumni made this 1922 anthology from eleven years of student writing, and its forty-nine poems retain the exploratory energy of…
View edition →
Poetry Anthology
Compiled by Verse Writers’ Club of Southern California
The Verse Writers’ Club’s first anthology proceeds as a relay among members rather than as a manifesto. Belle Cooper opens with fate, vintage, flight,…
View edition →
Poetry Anthology
Compiled by Delilah L. Beasley
These twenty-three poems were dispersed through Delilah L. Beasley’s The Negro Trail Blazers of California, where verse participates in the history rather than decorating…
View edition →
Historical Document
By Delilah L. Beasley
Reading Proof — Editorial Review Pending. This file is not approved for definitive public release. Delilah L. Beasley's history moves through twenty-four chapters from…
View edition →
Literary Anthology and Documentary Collection
Compiled by Ella Sterling Mighels
Ella Sterling Mighels organizes Literary California as a calendar rather than a conventional anthology. Each month becomes a crowded cabinet of poems, newspaper extracts,…
View edition →
Poetry Anthology
Edited by Augustin S. Macdonald
Augustin S. Macdonald arranges 105 poems into “Pioneer,” “Overland,” and “Present” periods, turning chronology into a theory of California poetry. The first group favors…
View edition →
Bilingual Poetry Anthology
Compiled by Ernest S. Green, Harriet von Lowenfels
Ernest S. Green and Harriet von Lowenfels organize this anthology as an exercise in comparative reading: Spanish poems and English versions follow one another…
View edition →
Poetry Anthology
Compiled by May Wentworth
May Wentworth's 1867 anthology answers the narrowness of Bret Harte's Outcroppings through scale: 143 poems by seventy-five contributors, assembled as a record of Pacific…
View edition →