Journal Issue
The Winter 1966 issue of Trace brings its writers together without asking them to sound alike. It contains 53 named pieces or sections, beginning with The Creative Window continued, Essays & Articles, and Editors (and others) Write. 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.
The Creative Window continued gives Trace no. 59 its clearest point of entry, while Essays & Articles and The Imagination of the Amateur by Felix Stefanile widen the issue’s field. Dated Winter 1966, this expansive number contains 55 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, VI changes the view; the closing stretch reaches Editors (and others) Write Who Knows the Length of the Umbilical Knot?, by J. E. L Eldridge 327 Seeks…. 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, Bernice Winters, Carl Linder, Carl Schemmerling, Carol Stager, Charles J Shagoury, Charles Shaw, and Christopher Perret, along with 89 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 The Creative Window continued, turn next to VI, and finish with Editors (and others) Write Who Knows the Length of the Umbilical Knot?, by J. E. L Eldridge 327 Seeks…. The clean reading edition is designed for that kind of movement. Original scan: 144 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 130 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.
Contributors
- A. Fredric Franklyn — Essayist
- Bernice Winters — Poet
- Carl Linder — Contributor
- Carl Schemmerling — Contributor
- Carol Stager — Fiction writer
- Charles J Shagoury — Contributor
- Charles Shaw — Contributor
- Christopher Perret — Poet
- D McKee — Contributor
- D. V Smith — Contributor
- Daisy Aldan — Poet
- Dallas E Wiebe — Contributor
- David Garcia — Fiction writer
- David J Raine — Contributor
- David Lee Pagari — Contributor
- David Lyle — Contributor
- David Margolis — Contributor
- David Rafael Wang — Contributor
- David Robinson — Contributor
- David Rogers — Contributor
- Dora M Pettinella — Contributor
- Dorothy Gravage — Fiction writer
- Earl E. LaClair — Poet
- Edward J Kerns — Contributor
- F. E Sandelius — Contributor
- Felix Pollak — Contributor
- Felix Singer — Contributor
- Felix Stefanile — Essayist
- Frank Ankenbrand — Contributor
- G. W. Sherman — Contributor
- George Ryan — Poet
- George Thompson — Contributor
- George Trakl — Contributor
- Gil Orlovitz — Contributor
- Glenn R Swetman — Contributor
- Gustave Keyser — Contributor
- H. M. Gordy — Poet
- Hans Juergensen — Poet
- Helen Sorrells — Contributor
- Helmer O. Oleson — Contributor
- Heywood Haut — Poet
- Irwin Ross — Contributor
- J. Michael Yates — Contributor
- James Boyer May — Essayist
- James Hiner — Contributor
- James McMann — Contributor
- James Simmons — Contributor
- James Singer — Contributor
- Jo McDougall — Contributor
- Joan White — Contributor
- Joanne de Longchamps — Poet
- Joel Weishaus — Contributor
- John Hideyo Hamamura — Poet
- John Tagliabue — Contributor
- John Tryford — Contributor
- Jory Sherman — Poet
- Joseph Edgar Simmons — Contributor
- Joyce Odam — Contributor
- Lee Malone — Contributor
- Lilith Lorraine — Contributor
- Lourine White — Contributor
- Marcel Braitstein — Contributor
- Marlis Schwieger — Contributor
- Martin S Dworkin — Contributor
- Martis Schwieger — Contributor
- Mary Graham Lund — Contributor
- Mary Sirchuk — Contributor
- Maude Rubin — Contributor
- Michael Schuldiner — Poet
- Milton VanSickle — Contributor
- N. M Weiss — Contributor
- Neil Myers — Contributor
- Paul B Newman — Contributor
- Reading Descriptions — Correspondent
- Richard Hugo — Poet
- Robert Lowry — Contributor
- Russell Salamon — Contributor
- Ruth Forbes Sherry — Contributor
- S. A Osterlund — Contributor
- S. A Yorks — Contributor
- Sam A. Eisenstein — Fiction writer
- SAM BRADLEY — Contributor
- Sheila Smith — Contributor
- Simon Perchik — Contributor
- Sister Rose Carol Piette — Contributor
- Stan Steiner — Poet
- Stella Snead — Artist
- Stella Snead Shadow — Contributor
- Steven Richmond — Contributor
- Thomas Bledsoe — Contributor
- Thomas Morrill — Contributor
- Tracy Thompson — Contributor
- Walter Darring — Contributor
- William E Taylor — Contributor
- William J Margolis — Contributor
- William Tillson — Poet
Publication details
Full contents
- The Creative Window continued [Contribution, p. 6]
- Essays & Articles [Essay, p. 7]
- Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 8]
- The Imagination of the Amateur — Felix Stefanile [Essay, p. 9]
- Towards Print (further Observations on ‘living Literature’) — James Boyer May [Essay, p. 21]
- Editors (and others) Write [Correspondence, p. 23]
- Seeks Mastery of Humor, Spontaneity at the Card-punch [Contribution, p. 25]
- Waiting for the Impact — Helmer O. Oleson [Contribution, p. 29]
- The Cinematic Short Story Forms — A. Fredric Franklyn [Essay, p. 31]
- (a Review of Kwai Dan) — A. Fredric Franklyn [Review, p. 31]
- Black Hair [Contribution, p. 38]
- The Chronicle [Reference, p. 54]
- Tomorrow Supplants the Pistol — Christopher Perret [Poem, p. 57]
- Writing the Poem — Joanne de Longchamps [Poem, p. 58]
- Names for things! [Contribution, p. 59]
- Mathematics of imagination, a measure of memory — — Joanne de Longchamps [Contribution, p. 60]
- Diana [Contribution, p. 61]
- The Artist as a Young Struggle — Jory Sherman [Poem, p. 63]
- Science of the Pathfinder [Contribution, p. 66]
- empathy, sympathy, & psychopathy [Contribution, p. 66]
- One Seal [Contribution, p. 68]
- Standard Tunes — Heywood Haut [Poem, p. 70]
- The Mushroom Hunters — William Tillson [Poem, p. 76]
- II — William Tillson [Contribution, p. 76]
- III [Contribution, p. 77]
- IV [Contribution, p. 77]
- V [Contribution, p. 78]
- VI [Contribution, p. 78]
- VII [Contribution, p. 78]
- Jezebel and Joseph — Sam A. Eisenstein [Fiction, p. 80]
- Sam A. Eisenstein [Contribution, p. 85]
- C’est La Guerre — Carol Stager [Fiction, p. 88]
- Carol Stager [Contribution, p. 91]
- Carol Stager [Contribution, p. 94]
- Three Paragraph Story — Dorothy Gravage [Fiction, p. 101]
- HE-HE — David Garcia [Fiction, p. 101]
- Lysistrata — G. W. Sherman [Contribution, p. 106]
- The Modern Poets : an Anthology — James Hiner [Contribution, p. 107]
- The Creative Window continued Stories : Jezebel and Joseph, by Sam A. Eisenstein 379 C’est La Guerre, by Carol Stager [Contribution, p. 384]
- Paragraph Story, by Dorothy Gravage — Dorothy Gravage [Fiction, p. 393]
- Playlet : He-he, by David Garcia — David Garcia [Contribution, p. 394]
- Offshoots from New Grafts : Death of a Hero, by Thomas Bledsoe — Thomas Bledsoe [Contribution, p. 396]
- 397 Lysistrata, by G. W. Sherman — G. W. Sherman [Contribution, p. 398]
- Modern Poets: An Anthology, by James Hiner — James Hiner [Contribution, p. 399]
- Super, by Walter Darring — Walter Darring [Contribution, p. 400]
- Photo-Art : Shikara, by Stella Snead — Stella Snead [Artwork, p. 401]
- where tides pulsate with constellations’, by Marlis Schwieger 402 ‘in winter beaches, receding seas leave twig tracings’, by Stella Snead 405 Sand Trees, by Stella Snead — Martis Schwieger [Contribution, p. 406]
- Beach — By Shadow, by Stella Snead — by Stella Snead Shadow [Contribution, p. 407]
- Marlis Schwieger [Contribution, p. 408]
- More Poems : Wanderlust, by George Ryan — George Ryan [Poem, p. 330]
- Taneum Creek, by Richard Hugo — Richard Hugo [Poem, p. 430]
- Hattie — I, by Earl E. LaClair — Earl E. LaClair [Contribution, p. 430]
- Essays & Articles The Imagination of the Amateur, by Felix Stefanile — Felix Stefanile [Essay, p. 317]
- Further Observations on Living Literature, by James Boyer May 326 The Cinematic Short Story Forms, by A. Fredric Franklyn [Contribution, p. 331]
- Editors (and others) Write Who Knows the Length of the Umbilical Knot?, by J. E. L Eldridge 327 Seeks Mastery of Humor, Spontaneity at the Card-Punch, by D. McKee 327 Declares ‘Describees’ Altered by Reading Descriptions, by Felix Singer 329 Waiting for the Impact, by Helmer O. Oleson [Correspondence, p. 330]
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Trace, no. 59 (Winter 1966). Text/Tech Journals reader’s edition, 2026.