The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-22
WHOSE Who" AT.
RED POETS NIGHT
FOR DAILY, CENTER
Well Known Bards Will
Read Verse Thursday

Many poets of established reputa-
ton will be among those who will
read from their own work at the sec
ond annual international Red Poets
Night, to be held Thursday evening
at o'clock at Labor Temple, Second
Ave. and 14th st. Revolutionary
poets writing in various languages
will read at this event, which has
been arranged for the benefit of The
DAILY WORKER and the Workers
Center.
A brief who's Who" of some of
those who will take part is as fol-
lows:
Michael Gold, editor of the New
Masses, is probably the best known
American proletarian writer and is
famous as poet, playwright, short
story writer and essayist.
Joseph Freeman, poet and critic, is
a former editor of the Liberator and
the New Masses and is co-author with
Scott Nearing of dollar Diplomacy"
Genevieve Taggard is the author of
several volumes of verse and is one
of the outstanding women poets and
critics in this country. She is the
editor of MAY Days." an anthology
of Masses-Liberator verse.
James Rorty, formerly an editor of
the New Masses, is the author of a
volume of verse and was the winner
of the Nations poetry prize in 1921.
Robert Wolf has published vol
ume of poetry, "After Disillusion,"
and novel, "Springboard," and has
contributed moving picture criticisms
to The DAILY WORKER. He recent
ly returned from the Soviet Union.
Adolf Wolff, poet and sculptor, is
the autho rof two volumes of verse.
In 1914 he was jailed several times
for agitating in favor of the strik-
ing Colorado miners. Wolff is fire.
quent contributor to The DAILY
WORKER.
Henry Reich, Jr., has contributed
frequently to The DAILY WORKER
and other newspapers and magazines.
His volume of verse, minor Music, Z"
w 90 PIOAtolCu IciOO ySdI.
A. B. Magil is a member of the
staff of The DAILY WORKER. His
poetry is included in America Ar
raigned," an anthology of Sacco-
Vanzetti verse, and in the Anthology
of Magazine Verse for 1927"
David Gordon, 19-year-old author
of the poem America" has just been
released from the New York County
reformatory and will read from his
prison poems.
Edwin Rolfe, member of The
DAILY WORKER staff, has contri-
buted to the New Masses and other
periodicals.
Abraham Raisin, poet and short
story writer, is the most popular and
best beloved living Yiddish writer.
His works are read by Jewish work
ers in every part of the globe and he
has been translated into many
languages. Raisin is a regular con-
tributor to the Freiheit.
H. Leivick, Yiddish poet and drama
fist, is also writer of international
reputation. He took part in the rev.
olutionary movement in Czarist Rus
STA, spent six years in Jail, and was
exiled for life to Siberia, from where
he escaped to the United States.
Aron Kurtz is one of the best of
the younger Yiddish poets and is a
frequent contributor to the Freiheit
and The Hammer.
Lajos Egri, Hungarian poet and
playwright, is the author of several
books of verse. His play, Rapid
Transit" was produced in translation
in New York two years ago.
Olgin Chairman.
Moissaye j. Olgin, who will be
chairman of the evening, is editor of
The Hammer and probably the best
known Yiddish agitational writer and
speaker. He has written in several
languages and is an authority on rev.
dictionary literature.
Margaret Larkin, well known sing.
er of cowboy songs, will render 6
number of her songs to banjo accom-.
paniment.
There will also be readings by Rus.
sian, Chinese, Ukrainian, German
Spanish and Italian poets.
Tickets for Red Poets Night are
90 cents and can be secured at the
local office Of The DAILY WORKER
108 E. 14th St.; the Workers Book
shop, 1928 Union Square; the Inter,
national Labor Defense, 799 Broad
way, Room 422; and the New Masses
80 Union Square.