Trace, No. 56 (Spring 1965) – Extremes

Journal Issue

This Spring 1965 number of Trace is best met through the writing itself. It contains 45 named pieces or sections, beginning with Academia & the Young Poet as Breadwinner by William Heyen I, After Reading Auden’s the Sphinx by Lee Malone, and Towards Print (in Trace) by James Boyer May. That opening offers a direct path through the issue, but it is not the only one. A reader can follow the printed order, pause over a familiar contributor, or start with a title that catches the eye. No special background is needed. The magazine explains itself gradually through the choices it makes and through the company each piece keeps.

Academia & the Young Poet as Breadwinner by William Heyen I gives Trace no. 56 its clearest point of entry, while After Reading Auden’s the Sphinx by Lee Malone and Towards Print (in Trace) by James Boyer May widen the issue’s field. Dated Spring 1965, this expansive number contains 62 pieces or named sections, moving between writing about literature, creative work, reviews, correspondence, and the everyday work of a little magazine. The order matters: recurring editorial features sit beside contributions with their own aims, so the magazine feels like an exchange among writers rather than a stack of unrelated pages. The reader’s edition makes that sequence easy to follow; the private source facsimile preserves the cover, page design, advertisements, visual material, and directory information that locate the writing in its first publication. Together, the reading edition and private source record show James Boyer May keeping a place for new writing while also showing how independent magazines found one another.

The contents page also works like a small map. Early entries establish the issue’s first set of voices; around the middle, Macmillan by W. B. Yates changes the view; the closing stretch reaches Come Through, by D. V. Smith by D. V. Smith. The works differ in length, subject, and manner, yet their placement creates connections that a simple list of names cannot show. The pleasure comes from those changes. A short piece can clear the air after a longer one, a new voice can redirect the mood, and an unexpected title can make an earlier page look different when the reader thinks back to it.

The contributor list includes A. Fredric Franklyn, Abigail Ann Hamblem, Abigail Ann Hamblen, Bernice Winters, CAMERON HAWLEY, Carl Schemmerling, D. M. Black, and D. V. Smith, along with 46 additional contributors. Some readers will arrive looking for a particular name; others will meet these contributors here for the first time. Either approach works. The publication details add useful context: the issue was edited by James Boyer May, published by Villiers Publications Ltd., and issued from London, England; Hollywood, California (editorial office). A journal is also a made object, assembled by people deciding what to print, how to order it, and which voices should share a number. Reading from beginning to end lets those choices appear naturally.

The catalog subjects—Little magazines, Experimental literature, Poetry, Fiction, and Literary criticism—are useful starting points, especially for searching, but they do not set limits on what a reader may find. For a first visit, begin with Academia & the Young Poet as Breadwinner by William Heyen I, turn next to Macmillan by W. B. Yates, and finish with Come Through, by D. V. Smith by D. V. Smith. The clean reading edition is designed for that kind of movement. Original scan: 112 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 121 PDF pages. It keeps the contents in a stable, legible form and makes names and titles easier to find. A source facsimile remains part of the project’s private editorial record, but it is not included in the public upload. What appears here is the reading copy: a practical way to spend time with the issue and discover which pieces invite a return.

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Contributors

A. Fredric Franklyn — Reviewer
Abigail Ann Hamblem — Essayist
Abigail Ann Hamblen — Contributor
Bernice Winters — Poet
CAMERON HAWLEY — Contributor
Carl Schemmerling — Poet
D. M. Black — Poet
D. V. Smith — Correspondent
David Comel Delong — Poet
David Rafael Wang — Poet
Dr. Olitsky — Contributor
Earl Hendler — Poet
Evelyn Fowler — Poet
George Thompson — Essayist
Henry Holt — Contributor
Houghton Mifflin — Contributor
James Boyer May — Essayist
James Singer — Correspondent
Jerry H. Burns — Poet
Jo McDougall — Poet
Joanne de Longchamps — Poet
John Hideyo Hamamura — Contributor
Joseph Edgar Simmons — Poet
Joseph H. Kempf — Poet
Lee Malone — Poet
Leona Hamilton — Poet
M. D. Elevitch — Essayist
M. Widdemer Other Poems — Contributor
Martin S. Dworkin — Artist
Maude Rubin — Poet
Milton VanSickle — Essayist
N. M. Weiss — Poet
Neal Meyers — Poet
OFFSHOOTS — Contributor
Paul B. Newman — Poet
R. G. Everson — Contributor
Ray Jerome — Poet
Ritchie Darling — Contributor
Robert Lowry — Poet
Ruth Forbes Sherry — Poet
Ryah Tumarkin Goodman — Poet
Sister Rose Carol Piette — Poet
SIX LANGUAGES — Contributor
Stanley Cooperman — Poet
Sue Abbott Boyd — Correspondent
Susan Solomont — Contributor
Tracy Thompson — Poet
W. B. Yates — Contributor
William Heyen — Contributor
William Heyen I — Essayist
WILLIAM M. BARRETT — Poet
William Packard — Poet
Yankee Captain of Arkansas Literary Craft Looks Back — Contributor

Publication details

Journal: Trace
Volume: Not recorded
Issue number: 56
Issue date: Spring 1965
Editor: James Boyer May
Publisher: Villiers Publications Ltd.
Place of publication: London, England; Hollywood, California (editorial office)
Language: English
Pagination: Original scan: 112 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 121 PDF pages.
Record ID: ttj-trace-56-1965

Full contents

Academia & the Young Poet as Breadwinner — William Heyen I [Essay, p. 6]
After Reading Auden’s the Sphinx — Lee Malone [Poem, p. 13]
Towards Print (in Trace) — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 14]
Editors and others Write [Correspondence, p. 16]
New Prison Writing Club Needs Materials — James Singer [Contribution, p. 18]
The Human Must Come Through — D. V. Smith [Correspondence, p. 19]
Novelist of the Business World — Abigail Ann Hamblem [Essay, p. 20]
The Means of Cinema (a Review of Ak Aisatsui) — A. Fredric Franklyn [Review, p. 26]
The Chronicle [Reference, p. 36]
Games, Sunsets, and Human Features — George Thompson [Essay, p. 37]
A Contra-view & ‘the Point for Literature’ [Contribution, p. 37]
A Masque of Meanings — Joanne de Longchamps [Poem, p. 43]
Poem to Be Read Silently — David Comel Delong [Poem, p. 50]
Macbeth [Contribution, p. 57]
Diurnal Report — Paul B. Newman [Poem, p. 66]
Passenger Pigeons — Carl Schemmerling [Poem, p. 69]
Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 71]
Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 73]
Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 75]
Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 77]
Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 79]
Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 81]
Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 83]
Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 85]
Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 87]
Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 89]
Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 91]
Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 93]
Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 95]
Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 97]
Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 99]
Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 102]
Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 104]
Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 106]
Inquiry for Today’s Intent Among New Books & Periodicals — Milton VanSickle [Contribution, p. 109]
MODERN FICTION STUDIES (Vol. X, No. 3 — 75c) is devoted to eight articles on Camus. Some of the writers, such as M M. Madison, Naomi C. Jackson, and Ben Stoltzfus, are concerned primarily with his philosophy; others (Richard Lehan, J. H. Matthews, and Brian T. Fitch) are concerned with his literary merits. Glenn Sandstrom compares Meursault of THE STRANGER with Julien Sorel of THE RED AND THE BLACK, while Marilyn Gaddis Rose makes Meursault into the Pharmakos of the ancient scapegoat syndrome. This issue, by the way, also includes over eleven pages listing studies of Camus to date [Contribution, p. 110]
The White Shirts [Contribution, p. 114]
In Astrology’s Defense — M. D. Elevitch [Essay, p. 116]
Advertisement [Contribution, p. 119]
Macmillan — W. B. Yates [Contribution, p. 119]
Scribner — Houghton Mifflin [Contribution, p. 119]
Houghton Mifflin — Henry Holt [Contribution, p. 119]
Henry Holt — M. Widdemer Other Poems [Contribution, p. 119]
The Old Huntsman and Other Poems, Siegfried Sassoon, E. P Dutton [Poem, p. 120]
Magazines [Contribution, p. 120]
The Far Hills, by John Hideyo Hamamura — John Hideyo Hamamura [Contribution, p. 59]
B. Newman [Contribution, p. 61]
Man on a Park Bench, by Ray Jerome — Ray Jerome [Poem, p. 62]
The Creative Window continued Identity, by Ruth Forbes Sherry — Ruth Forbes Sherry [Contribution, p. 63]
Hamilton [Contribution, p. 64]
Novella : Passenger Pigeons, by Carl Schemmerling — Carl Schemmerling [Contribution, p. 65]
Photo-Art : The American Negro in New York City, by Martin S. Dworkin (incl. cover) — Martin S. Dworkin [Artwork, p. 85]
More Poems : After Reading Auden’s ‘The Sphinx,’ by Lee Malone — Lee Malone [Poem, p. 5]
The Snows of Winter, by Robert Lowry — Robert Lowry [Poem, p. 100]
Essays & Articles Academia & The Young Poet as Breadwinner, by William Heyen 1 Towards Print (In Trace), by James Boyer May — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 6]
Novelist of the Business World, by Abigail Ann Hamblem 9 The Means of Cinema, by A. Fredric Franklyn — Abigail Ann Hamblem [Essay, p. 13]
Sunset, And Human Features, by George Thompson — George Thompson [Essay, p. 30]
Inquiry for Today’s Intent, by Milton VanSickle — Milton VanSickle [Essay, p. 94]
Astrology’s Defense, by M. D. Elevitch — M. D. Elevitch [Essay, p. 99]
Editors (and others) Write Yankee Captain . . ., by Sue Abbott Boyd — Sue Abbott Boyd [Correspondence, p. 7]
Writing Club . . ., by James Singer — James Singer [Contribution, p. 8]
Come Through, by D. V. Smith — D. V. Smith [Contribution, p. 8]

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Rights in the individual contributions and the periodical compilation have not been fully resolved.

Trace, no. 56 (Spring 1965). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.