Lucile Nickerson Colyer — Thy Neighbor
Lucile Colyer turned a voyage to Japan, the sudden death of her husband, and the friendship that carried her through grief into a book-length protest against wartime racial hatred. Written in plain blank verse, Thy Neighbor follows Japanese and Japanese American friends through war, removal, incarceration, and resettlement from the perspective of a Los Angeles woman who tried to help them.
Thomas J. McGonigle — Dark Donegal and Other Poems
A Donegal-born railroad worker and Los Angeles civic employee turns exile, Irish freedom, California travel, family devotion, political satire, and ordinary friendship into a lifetime’s rough music.
Snow Longley Housh — Sonnets of Spinsterhood and Other Poems
A Los Angeles teacher made unmarried female desire the center of a sonnet sequence—and then helped generations of teenagers discover that poetry could be written, not merely admired.
Laurence Edward Innes — Collected Poems
Live oaks, orange groves, Christmas sunlight, desert roads, Hollywood custard pies, and one stunned moment at the Grand Canyon: a brisk little archive of 1921 California.
Edson, Charles Farwell — Los Angeles: From the Sierras to the Sea
A singer and poet follows Los Angeles from Sierra waterworks through downtown streets to San Pedro.
Jennie Kiefer — Collected Poems
A Wisconsin-born Los Angeles poet turns meadowlarks, moonlight, Pacific surf, motorcars, civic monuments, and the catastrophe of modern war into a poetry of restless public address. This edition restores Jennie Kiefer’s complete first book and every new or meaningfully revised poem in her rare 1923 collection.
Arthur Orison Dillon — Collected Poems
A judge, booster, genealogist, lost-love mystic, and one-man publishing empire turns Southern California civic life—its hopes, griefs, prejudices, and ambitions—into hundreds of poems.
Grace Atherton Dennen — Recovered Poems
Grace Atherton Dennen was a teacher, novelist, club organizer, editor of The Ebell, and founder of The Lyric West. Her recovered poetry is as varied as that career: dramatic monologue, suffrage comedy, Pacific history, domestic memory, agricultural labor, scientific nightmare, Western narrative, flowers, music, faith, and mortality. This volume replaces the old six-poem file with the fullest text-based collection the current archive supports.
Rosalie S. Jacoby — Kaleidoscope and Later Poems
Rosalie S. Jacoby’s Kaleidoscope moves from Los Angeles streets, libraries, theater, sculpture, dispossession, marriage, and literary work into the close observational world of children’s rooms, games, fears, jokes, and questions. This edition resets the complete two-part 1926 book and adds four spare later poems recovered from Variegation, extending her known poetry through 1950.
Odell Francis — Smoking Flax and Other Poems
Odell Francis carried poetry through song, radio, women’s clubs, newspaper columns, editorial work, and an Inglewood manuscript service. This edition restores all forty-three poems in her 1941 collection Smoking Flax and eleven uncollected newspaper poems, including antiwar writing on aircraft, military regimentation, and Shanghai. The documentary biography gathers every securely located event from 1930 to 1942 while keeping her probable legal name and still-unidentified origins, marriage, and later life clearly marked as unresolved.