Extremes and Moderations: A Historical Archive of Los Angeles and Southern California Poetry
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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…
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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…
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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…
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