Anthology of Southern California Verse

• Snow Longley Housh — Editor and poet
• Roy Towner Thompson — Editor
• Leslie Nelson Jennings — Editor and poet
• Verse Writers’ Club of Southern California — Compiler
• Colin Palmerston — Original introduction, club president, and poet
• Jean Baker — Poet
• Eleanor Baldwin — Poet
• Mabel Wing Castle — Poet
• Ethel Caskey — Poet
• Pauline Garner Curran — Poet
• Virginia Church — Poet
• James L. Duff — Poet
• Ben Field — Poet
• Nancy K. Foster — Poet
• Hildegarde Flanner — Poet
• Ethelean Tyson Gaw — Poet
• Julia Boynton Green — Poet
• Dorothy Haddox — Poet
• Anne Hamilton — Poet
• Albert B. Hoxie — Poet
• Florence Bowen Hult — Poet
• Anne Harley — Poet
• Marion Ethel Hamilton — Poet
• Grover Jacoby — Poet
• Elinor Lennen — Poet
• LeRoy MacLeod — Poet
• Geraldine MacLeod — Poet
• Neeta Marquis — Poet
• Arthur Truman Merrill — Poet
• John Russell McCarthy — Poet
• Carlyle MacIntyre — Poet
• Beulah May — Poet
• Dorothea Moore — Poet
• Ruth Clay Price — Poet
• Mabel W. Phillips — Poet
• I. D. Perry — Poet
• Leetha Journey Probst — Poet
• Roberta Rinear — Poet
• W. W. Robinson — Poet and historian
• Georgia Minerva Rowles — Poet
• Sydney King Russell — Poet
• Helen Molyneaux Salisbury — Poet
• Sarah Bixby Smith — Poet
• Winifred Gray Stewart — Poet
• Helen Walker Truesdell — Poet
• Julia Van der Veer — Poet
• David Weissman — Poet
• Winifred Waldron — Poet
• Jake Zeitlin — Poet and publisher
• Brian Kim Stefans — Editorial introduction and digital edition apparatus

Broad format

Anthologies

Collection

Verse Writers’ Club Anthologies

Document type

Poetry Anthology

Original title

Anthology of Southern California Verse

Original publication date

1930

Editor

Snow Longley Housh, Roy Towner Thompson, and Leslie N. Jennings; Brian Kim Stefans (editorial introduction and digital edition apparatus)

Compiler

Verse Writers’ Club of Southern California

Original publisher

Primavera Press

Place of publication

Los Angeles, California

Language

English

Pagination

Original witnesses: 51 and 121 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 109 PDF pages.

Available editions

Reader’s Edition

Edition type

Reader’s Edition

Subjects

Keywords

Anthology of Southern California Verse Verse Writers’ Club Primavera Press Snow Longley Housh Jake Zeitlin Los Angeles 1930

Continuity notes

Part of the shared Anthologies and Documents collection.

Edition note

The formatted edition presents the selected source text in a stable, searchable reading format with modern navigation. Source scans remain private editorial evidence and are not part of the public upload.

Source note

Metadata and contents were checked against the 109-page formatted PDF and the identified source scan files where available.

Copyright notice

Copyright in public-domain source texts has expired in the United States. Copyright in later works and new editorial matter remains with the respective authors, editors, publishers, or successors.

Rights status

Public Domain

Rights basis

The original 1930 publication is in the public domain in the United States. New editorial introduction, apparatus, and design were prepared in 2026.

Suggested citation

Housh, Snow Longley, Roy Towner Thompson, and Leslie N. Jennings, eds. Anthology of Southern California Verse. Primavera Press, 1930. Text/Tech Anthologies and Documents, reader’s edition, 2026.