A warm winter night in 1920s Communist New York. An amazing line-up of writers followed by a jazz band and dance bacchanal for the third annual Red Poets’ Night.

‘Red Poetry and Jazz’ from the Daily Worker. Vol. 5 No. 307. December 27, 1928.

Who’s who among the revolutionary poets who are going to do their stuff at the big International Red Poets Night and Dance Bacchanal tomorrow night at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St.

Here’s the all-star line-up in alphabetical order: D. Burliuk, Russian poet and painter; Martin Feinstein, contributor to the “Nation,” Daily Worker and the Second American Caravan; Joseph Freeman, poet and critic, formerly an editor of the New Masses and the Liberator, co-author with Scott Nearing of “Dollar Diplomacy.”

Michael Gold.

Michael Gold, poet, playwright, short-story writer, editor of the New Masses, one of the directors of the New Playwrights Theatre. His new book, “120 Million,” will be published soon by International Publishers. David Gordon, contributor to the Daily Worker and the New Masses; author of the poem, “America,” for which he spent 30 days in the Tombs and the State Reformatory. Langston Hughes, famous Negro poet, author of two books of verse. Aaron Kurtz, Yiddish proletarian poet, contributor to the Freiheit and The, Hammer, author of three books of poetry and a full-length play.

H. Leivick, one of the foremost contemporary Yiddish poets and playwrights, contributor to the Freiheit and The Hammer, author of two volumes of poetry, of “Shop,” “Rags,” “The Golem” and other famous plays. A.B. Magil, contributor to the Daily Worker and the New Masses.

Moishe Nadir.

Moishe Nadir, internationally famous Yiddish poet, playwright and satirist, contributor to the Freiheit and The Hammer. A Pomerantz, contributor to the Freiheit and The Hammer. Henry Reich, Jr., contributor to the Daily Worker and to many magazines, author of a book of verse.

Lola Ridge, leading American poet, author of “The Ghetto” and “Red Flag.” Edwin Rolfe, contributor to the Daily Worker and the New Masses. Martin Russak, contributor to the New Masses. J. Sigzorich, contributor to Radnik, Jugo-Slav Communist daily. Herman Spector, contributor to the Daily Worker, New Masses, transition and The Exile. Included in the Second American Caravan.

Chinese Poet.

H.T. Tsiang, Chinese poet, contributor to the Daily Worker and the New Masses. His first volume of verse, “Poems of the Chinese Revolution,” which has been praised by Upton Sinclair, will appear at Red Poets’ Night. William Weinberg, contributor to Uj Elore, Hungarian Communist Daily.

Robert Wolf, contributor to the Daily Worker and the New Masses, author of a volume of verse, “After Disillusion,” a novel, “Springboard,” and of an experimental movie scenario, “Looney,” which appeared in the Nation several years ago. Adolf Wolff, contributor to the Daily Worker, author of two volumes of verse.

Revolutionary Songs.

In addition to the poets, Harrison George, of the Daily Worker, will sing revolutionary songs in four languages, English, Spanish, Italian and Chinese. George was formerly an editor of Industrial Solidarity, organ of the I.W.W., and served two years in Fort Leavenworth for “seditious conspiracy.” He recently returned from the Soviet Union.

M.J. Olgin, editor of The Hammer, will be chairman of the evening and give an introductory talk on proletarian literature. A big Dance Bacchanal will follow the readings, with music furnished by John C. Smith’s Negro Syncopators. Get your ticket at once at the office of the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square.

The Daily Worker began in 1924 and was published in New York City by the Communist Party US and its predecessor organizations. Among the most long-lasting and important left publications in US history, it had a circulation of 35,000 at its peak. The Daily Worker came from The Ohio Socialist, published by the Left Wing-dominated Socialist Party of Ohio in Cleveland from 1917 to November 1919, when it became became The Toiler, paper of the Communist Labor Party. In December 1921 the above-ground Workers Party of America merged the Toiler with the paper Workers Council to found The Worker, which became The Daily Worker beginning January 13, 1924. National and City (New York and environs) editions exist

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