1934

 

E

[Poem] "My Song." New Pioneer Apr. 1934: 278.

 

E

[Poem] "We Shall Not Forget You." New Pioneer May 1934: 19.

 

E

[Poem] "We'll Fight for Our Cause, Not Yours!" New Pioneer Aug. 1934: 23.

 

E

[Poem] "To Angelo Herndon." New Pioneer Nov. 1934: 6.

 

 

1935

 

 

E

[Poem] "Scottsboro." New Pioneer Feb. 1935: 7.  Listed as the "February Prize Poem." Written c1933.

 

 

 

1936

 

 

E

[Poem] "America." New Pioneer Jan. 1936: 13.

 

E
[Poem] "The Cannon Are Impatient." New Pioneer Apr. 1936: 22.

 

E

[Poem] "The Statue." New Pioneer Aug. 1936: 21.

 

 

 

1937

 

E

[Poem] "Poem." Sunday Worker 22 Aug. 1937: 11. In AC as "The Shoe-Shine Boy."

 

E

[Poem] "Ballad of Tom Mooney." Sunday Worker  26 Sep.1937, sec. 2: 10.

 

E

[Poem] "Oh How We Suffer: Song of the Masses." Sunday Worker 10 Oct. 1937: 11.

 

E

[Poem] "Thought on a Train." Brooklyn College Observer 8.2 (Nov. 1937): 6. In AC.

 

E

[Poem] "Sonnet." Brooklyn College Observer 8.2 (Nov. 1937): 15. In AC as "Defeat." On the Contributors page (18) of this issue the following sentence appears: "Aaron Kramer, another lower Freshman, will be sixteen next month."

 

E

[Poem] "Lucy Parsons." Sunday Worker 5 Dec. 1937: 11.

 

E

[Poem] "Hail Florida." Sunday Worker 12 Dec. 1937: 11.

 

 

 

1938

 

E

[Poem] "In the Land of Olives." Sunday Worker  16 Jan. 1938, sec. 2: 11.

 

 

1939

 

E

[Poem] "Sunday Lyric." Brooklyn College Observer 11.1 (Mar. 1938): 15.

 

E

[Poem] "War." Brooklyn College Observer 12.1 (Oct. 1939): 23. In AF.

 

E

[Poem] "The Breeze." Brooklyn College Observer 12.3 (Dec. 1939): 14. In AF.

 

 

 

  1940

 

E01

[Poem]  "The Soul of Martin Dies."  Student Outlook (American Student Union, Brooklyn College Chapter)  2 Feb. 1940: 3.  "slow" for "low" in line twenty-seven.  In AF.

 

E02

[Poem]  "Gulliver."   Brooklyn College Observer  13.1 (Apr. 1940): 19.  In AF.

 

E

[Poem] "May Day, 1940." Daily Worker 1 May 1940: 9. In AF.

 

E

[Poem] "The Breeze." Daily Worker 15 May 1940: 7.  In AF.

 

E03

[Poem]  "War."  Student Outlook (American Student Union, Brooklyn College Chapter) 1.3 (20 May 1940): [10].  In AF.

 

E

[Poem] "A Song for Freedom." Daily Worker 23 May 1940: 7.  In AF.

 

E04

[Poem]  "Poem."  Brooklyn College Observer  14.1 (Oct. 1940): 8.  Begins "The train was high above the streets..."

 

E05

[Essay].  "The Oklahoma Case." Brooklyn College Observer  14.1 (Oct. 1940): 18-19.  Written jointly with Edith Gottschalk.  Details the arrest and pending trial of two Brooklyn College students, Eli Jaffe and Alan Lifshutz, charged in Oklahoma with "criminal syndicalism."

 

 E06

[Poem]  "Garcia Lorca."  Brooklyn College Observer  14.3  (Dec. 1940): 9.  In TGR and SP.

 

E07

[Poem]  "The Market."  Student Outlook (American Student Union, Brooklyn College Chapter) 2.1 (2 Dec. 1940): 9.  Later set to music by Waldemar Hille.

 

 

 

 

                                                                           1941

 

 

E08

[Poem]  "Work Day."  Brooklyn College Observer  15.1 (Mar. 1941): 9.  In TGR and TC.

 

E09

[Poem]  "Snow." Brooklyn College Observer  15.1 (Mar. 1941): 18.  In TGR and TC.

 

E10

[Poem]  "The Knight of Hope." Brooklyn College Observer  15.1 (Mar. 1941): 23.

 

E11

[Poem]  "Valedictory Ode." Brooklyn College New Observer  15.2 (Apr. 1941): 18.

 

E12

[Poem]  "My Mind Has Run Through Forests."  Brooklyn College New Observer  15.3 (May 1941): 11.  In GM as "Spring Song" with the first line changed.

 

 

 

 

                                                                           1942

 

 

 

E13

[Poem]  "To a Soldier Living."  Observer-Kaleidoscope  8.1 (Oct. 1942): 6.

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                           1943

 

 

E14

[Poem]  "For the Murdered Jews."  Jewish Examiner  29.9 (5 Mar. 1943): [N. pag.]

 

E15

[Poem]  "Snapshot."  New Voices  18 July 1943: 10.

 

E16

[Poem]  "Christmas Carol."  The Bedside Banter (U.S. Army Station Hospital, Hammer Field, CA)  25 Dec. 1943: 1.  In TGNS.

 

E17

[Poem]  "Christmas Carol, 1943."  New Masses  28 Dec. 1943: 13.  In TGNS as "Christmas Carol".

 

 

 

                                                                           1944

 

 

 

E18

[Poem]  "Elegy for Meyer Levin."  The American Hebrew  21 Apr. 1944: 7.  In TGNS.

 

E19

[Poem]  "The Crucifixion."  Pulse: The Inter-College Literary-Art Magazine  2.1 (May 1944): 17.

 

E20

[Poem]  "Overture."  Pulse: The Inter-College Literary-Art Magazine  2.1 (May 1944): 18.

 

E21

[Poem]  "The Recapture of Sevastopol."  New Masses  23 May 1944: 5.  In TGNS.

 

E22

[Poem]  "On Fiftieth Street."  Experiment: A Quarterly of New Poetry  1.2 (July 1944): 19.  In GM.

 

E23

[Poem]  "Lullaby."  Experiment: A Quarterly of New Poetry  1.2 (July 1944): 20.

 

E24

[Poem]  "In Memoriam."  New Currents  2.7/8  (Sep. 1944): 9.  In TGNS, untitled, as the dedication and in BB as "Lublin."

 

E25

[Poem]  "Song of Liberation."  The American Hebrew  15 Sep. 1944: 14.  In TGNS as "Liberation Song" with three stanzas omitted and "Sunrise in Paris" added.  Last section, titled "Tell This Blood" in choral setting by Lukas Foss, received honorable mention at the 1946 Cleveland Music Festival, judged by Aaron Copland.  In BB as "Monument."

 

E26

[Essay]  "Two Poets."  New Masses  19 Sep. 1944: 23-25.  Reviews of Exile From a Future Time by Sol Funaroff (Dynamo) and No Road Back by Walter Mehring (Samuel Curl).

 

 

E27

[Poem]  "Chanukah 1944."  The American Hebrew  15 Dec. 1944: 33.  A sonnet with lines 4 and 8 erroneously broken.  In BB as "Hanukkah 1944."

 

 

 

                                                                           1945

 

 

E28

[Poem]  "The Mayflower: Three Hymns."  Voices: A Quarterly of Poetry  120 (Winter 1945): 23-26.  In GM.

 

E29

[Essay]  "The Unended Song."  New Masses  16 Jan. 1945: 23-24.  Review of They Look Like Men by Alexander F. Bergman (Ackerman).

 

E30

[Poems]  "Tito" and "A Letter to the Army Air Corps."  Office and Professional News  12.3 (Mar. 1945): 10.  Incorporated in an unsigned review of Thru Our Guns titled "Aaron Kramer- Poet and Trade Unionist".  In TGNS.  Second poem is part of the sonnet sequence, "The Triumph of Icarus."

 

E31

[Essay]  "Something We Live By."  New Masses  3 Apr. 1945: 24.  Reviews of For Crossing Wide Waters by Hargis Westerfield (Driftwood Press), Poems by John Beck Shank (Knopf), and An American in Sicily by Earle Davis (Margent Press).

 

E32

[Poem]  "Seymour Keidan."  New Masses  10 Apr. 1945: 22.  In GM and BB.

 

E33

[Essay]  "Wrestling With Angels."  New Masses  10 Apr. 1945: 27-28.  Review of Poems by Joseph Eliyia, translated by Rae Dalven (Anatolia Press).

 

E34

[Poem]  "Pity."  New Masses  15 May 1945: 9.

 

E35

[Poem]  "To Festus Coleman in Prison."  New Masses  31 June 1945: 9.  In GM.

 

E36

[Essay]  "The Tower."  New Masses  31 July 1945: 12-13, 15.  Focuses on William Butler Yeats and Robinson Jeffers.

 

E37

[Poem]  "Telegram."  The Span  4.1 (Sep./Oct. 1945): 5.  Originally part of "The Glass Mountain," but not included in GM.

 

E38

[Poem]  "Marching Song."  Office and Professional News  12.10 (Oct. 1945): 8.  In GM and later in TC as the final section of "A Wartime Winter Poem."

 

E39

[Poem]  "On the Harnessing of Atomic Energy."  New Masses  23 Oct. 1945: 8.  Kramer discusses and quotes from this poem in G535.

 

E40

 [Poem]  "The Song of the Burning Bush."  The American Hebrew  23 Nov. 1945: 11.  In GM and in BB as the dedicatory poem.

 

 

                                                                           1946

 

 

E41

[Poem]  "Nocturne."  New Masses  29 Jan. 1946: 12.

 

E42

[Poem]  "Victory Comes to the Unbombed Cities."  New Masses  9 Apr. 1946: 23.  In GM.

 

E43

[Poems]  "Spring Song" and "Song."  The Span  4.4  (Apr./May 1946): 13.  "Spring Song" in TG.

 

 

 

                                                                           1947

 

 

E44

[Poem]  "Pledge."  Saturday Review  8 Feb. 1947: 32.  In TGNS, untitled, as Part Five of "Liberation Song."  See G25.

 

E45

[Translation]  "Partisan Song," by Hirsh Glick.  Jewish Life  1.6 (Apr. 1947): 7.  From the Yiddish.  Includes score.  In M, CYP, and LL.

 

E
[Essay] "Kreymborg Bodenheim Poems Enrich Treasury of People's Culture." Daily Worker 20 Apr. 1947: N. pag.

 

E46

[Poem]  "The Road I Have Chosen."  The Protestant  June/July 1947: 32.  Titled "Marching Song" in GM and in TC as Section Four of "A Wartime Winter Poem."  Identified as the last musical setting by Charles Wakefield Cadman.

 

E47

[Translation]  "The Ballad of Itzik Wittenberg (From the Vilna Ghetto)," by Schmerke Katcherginsky.  Jewish Life  1.12  (Oct. 1947): 19.  From the Yiddish.  In M, CYP, and LL.

 

E48

[Translations]  "Two Poems: Belshazzar [and] Prologue to `The Rabbi of Bacherach,'" by Heinrich Heine.  Jewish Life  2.2 (Dec. 1947): 20.  From the German.  In HH1 and HH2.

 

 

 

                                                                           1948

 

 

E49

[Poem]  "The Thunder of the Grass."  Jewish Life  2.3  (Jan. 1948): 12-14.  In TG and BB.

 

E50

[Poem]  "The Thunder of the Grass."  The American Hebrew  6 Feb. 1948: 4, 8-9.  In TG and BB.

 

E51

[Translation]  "The Stone," by Ber Green (1901-1989).  Jewish Life  2.6  (Apr. 1948): 20.  From the Yiddish.  In LL.

 

E52

[Poem]  "An Ode for the Jewish State."  The American Hebrew  24 Sep. 1948: 4-5.  In GT and BB as "Israel: An Ode."  Published one week after the United Nations created the new nation. Also in Voice of 500 Nov. 1948: N. pag.

 

E53

[Essay]  "Visions and Things."  Memo (United Office and Professional Workers of America, Local 16)  Nov. 1948: [N. pag.]  Includes many passages from William Blake.

 

 

 

 

                                                                           1949

 

 

E54

[Translation]  "Lullaby," by Benjamin Katz (1905-    ).  Yiddish America  1.3  (Mar. 1949): [N. pag.]  From the Yiddish.  In G_______

 

E55

[Translation]  "Song of the Palmach" [author not identified].  Jewish Life  3.10  (Aug. 1949): 18.  From the Hebrew.

 

E56

[Poems]  "Mother Goose at Peekskill."  Memo  (United Office and Professional Workers of America, Local 16)  Sep. 1949: [N. pag.]  Includes eight parodies of nursery rhymes published in Kramer's occasional column "Visions and Things."  Contains the note: "Written on the floor of bus No. 106, along Route 100, at 6:30 P.M., September 4th."

 

E

[Letter] "A Letter from Aaron Kramer." Daily Worker 14 Sep. 1949: 12. Responds to "a sour welcome from your reviewer" toward The Golden Trumpet.

 

E

[Poem] "For Sol Funaroff." Daily Worker 3 Nov. 1949: N. pag. In GT.

 

E57

[Poems]  "Visions and Things."  Memo  (United Office and Professional Workers of America, Local 16)  Dec. 1949: [N. pag.]  Includes "Santa at Wanamaker's" (in TC as "Santa at Gimbels), "The Trees" (in TEW as "Christmas Trees"), and "A New Carol" (in TEW as "A Song for Peace," section 6 of "When Every Tear Is Turned to Stone").

 

E58

[Poem]  "Peekskill."  Harlem Quarterly  1.1  (Winter 1949/50): 27-28.  An errata slip inserted following p.28 adds line 6 of Section Four which was omitted in the original printing and properly spaces the third and fourth quatrains.  In TW.  Kramer served on the editorial board with Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois, and others.  Performed by the Weavers with Frank Silvera as narrator at the First Anniversary Commemoration, Manhattan Center, New York.

 

 

 

                                                                           1950

 

 

E59

[Essay]  "Voices: A Quarterly Magazine of Verse, Winter, 1950: A Negro Poets Issue."  Harlem Quarterly  1.2  (Spring 1950): 50-52.  Reviews the special anthology issue, guest edited by Langston Hughes.

 

E60

[Translations]  "Poems of Morris Winchevsky."  Jewish Life  4.7 (May 1950): 23-25.  From the Yiddish.  Kramer's biographical sketch of Winchevsky appears on pp. 23-24.  Includes: "In Rain, in the Wind and the Frost" (24) in CYP and DV; "Jack the Thief" (24-25), "A Little Girl in the City" (25), "A Battle Song" (25), "My Vow" (25) in CYP, "In Battle" (25) in CYP; all in M except "A Battle Song."  "A Little Girl in the City" and "A Battle Song," as well as a condensed biographical sketch, were reprinted in Canadian Jewish Weekly  4 January 1951: 2.

 

E61

[Translations]  "Poems of Morris Rosenfeld."  Jewish Life  4.8 (June 1950): 16-19.  From the Yiddish.  Kramer's biographical sketch of Rosenfeld appears on pp. 16-18.  Includes:  "What is the World" (18), in DV with revised version in CYP, M and TM; "The Teardrop Millionaire" (18), in DV, with revised lines 1-8 in CYP, M, and TM; "With My Child" (18-19), in DV, M, and TM; "The Sweatshop" (19), in TM and M; and "Shoot the Beast: (19), in OFS and CYP, DV, M, and TM.  "With My Child," "The Sweatshop," and a condensed biographical sketch were reprinted in Canadian Jewish Weekly  25 January 1951: 2.  Revised biographical sketch also in TM.

 

E62

[Translations]  "Poems of David Edelshtat."  Jewish Life  4.9 (July 1950): 12-14.  From the Yiddish.  Kramer's biographical sketch of Edelshtat appears on pp. 12-13.  Includes: "In Battle" (13), in DV with line 7 revised;  "To My Brothers" (13); "From My Journal" (13), two concluding stanzas in DV, entire poem in CYP and M; "The Worker" (13-14); "Spring" (14), in DV;  "The Wounded Eagle" (14), in M; and "The Last Will" (14), in CYP and DV as "My Testament."  "In Battle," "The Worker," "The Last Will," and a condensed biographical sketch were reprinted in Canadian Jewish Weekly  (11 January 1951): 2.  Entire biographical sketch reprinted as "David Edelshtat-- A Biographical Essay, Reprinted from `Jewish Life,'" The Jewish Digest (Johannesburg, South Africa) October/November 1950: 53-54.  In CYP.

 

E63

[Translations]  "Poems of Joseph Bovshover."  Jewish Life  4.10 (Aug. 1950): 14-16.  From the Yiddish.  Kramer's biographical sketch of Bovshover appears on pp. 14-15.  Includes: "A Song for the People" (15), in DV;  "To Sing or to Damn" (16), in DV and, titled "To Sing or to Curse," in CYP and M;  "From My Album" (16), in M as second section of poem by that name; and "Revolution" (16), stanzas 1, 3, 4, and 8 in CYP and M as "To Those in Power."  "A Song for the People," "To Sing or to Damn," "From My Album," and a condensed biographical sketch were reprinted in Canadian Jewish Weekly  18 January 1951: 2.  In CYP.

 

E64

[Poem]  "As Shakespeare Said."  National Guardian  9 Aug. 1950: 1.  In RFD as "Patriotism."

 

E65

[Poem]  "In Contempt."  National Guardian  30 Aug. 1950: 6.  In DV as Part Four of "October in Freedom Land."

 

E66

[Poem]  "That Mighty Twine."  Harlem Quarterly  1.3-4 (Fall/Winter 1950): 45-55.  Based on an incident related in B.A. Botkin's Lay My Burden Down.  In TW.

 

E67

[Translation]  "Awake," by David Edelshtat.  Jewish Life  4.11 (Sep. 1950): 19.  From the Yiddish.  In DV.

 

E68

[Poem]  "Halloween."  Sing Out!  Oct. 1950: 12.  In RFD and TC.

 

E69

[Poem]  "All Eyes Can See."  National Guardian  11 Oct. 1950: 2.  In DV as Part Two of "October in Freedom Land."

 

E70

[Translation]  "A New Song," by Heinrich Heine.  National Guardian  25 Oct. 1950: 14.  From the German.  Translation unattributed. In HH1 and HH2 as part of Section One of "Germany: A Winter's Tale."

 

E71

[Translations]  "Poems."  Jewish Life  4.2 (Dec. 1950): 24.  From the Yiddish.  "My Son" by Morris Rosenfeld, in M and TM; and "To the Wind" and "The Flower Island" by Joseph Bovshover, in DV and M.  In CYP.

 

 

 

 

                                                                           1951

 

 

E72

[Essay]  "There's No Money in Music . . . but the Lark's a Millionaire."  National Guardian 28 Feb. 1951: 6.  Review of No More War, and Other Poems by Alfred Kreymborg (Bookman Associates).

 

E73

[Poems]  "Love Song" and "Return."  Nocturne (Magazine of the Brooklyn College School of General Studies)  Spring 1951: 14.  Part Two of "Love Song" appears in M as "Still Life."  "Return" appears in TC as "Alma Mater".

 

E74

[Poems]  "Tsvei Lider."  Yiddishe Kultur  Mar. 1951: 48.  These two brief Yiddish poems constitute Kramer's only writings up to that time in a language other than English.  An explanatory letter by Kramer, translated into Yiddish by the editor N. Meisel, accompanies the text. 

 

E75

[Translations]  "Four Poems."  Jewish Life  5.6 (Apr. 1951): 24-25.  From the Yiddish. Includes: "Three Sisters" (24) by Morris Winchevsky, in CYP, DV and M; "Pious Hypocrites" (24) by Morris Winchevsky; "A Teardrop on the Iron" (24-25) by Morris Rosenfeld, in CYP, M and TM; "My Place" (25) by Morris Rosenfeld, in DV and, much revised, in CYP, M and TM as "My Camping Ground."

 

E76

[Poems]  "Nocturne" and "Autumnal."  Nocturne  (Magazine of the Brooklyn College School of General Studies) Fall 1951: 9.  "Nocturne" received the New York State Poetry Award for 1954. In TC, untitled, as the opening poem.  "Autumnal" in DV, untitled, as Part One of "October in Freedom Land."  Also in TC as "October".

 

E77

[Poem]  "Monticello; a Jefferson Cantata."  The Last Call!  3.1 (Dec. 1951): 6.  In DV with the first twelve lines omitted.

 

E78

[Poem]  "Is This the City."  The Last Call!  3.1 (Dec. 1951): 7.  Originally intended as a section of "The Tinderbox".  In RFD.

 

E79

[Poem]  "A Song Unsung From the Windows."  The Last Call!  3.1 (Dec. 1951): 8.  A section of "The Tinderbox" never otherwise published.

 

E80

[Poem]  "A Mother Along the Line of March."  National Guardian  5 Dec. 1951: 1.  In DV as Section Four of "Songs From `The Tinderbox'".  Also in RFD.

 

 

 

                                                                           1952

 

 

E81

[Translation]  "Homeland," by Binem Heller (1908-    ).  Jewish Life  6.3 (Jan. 1952): 16.  From the Yiddish.

 

E82

[Essay]  "New Rolfe Book."  National Guardian  16 Jan. 1952: 8.  Review of First Love and Other Poems, by Edwin Rolfe (Los Angeles, Larry Edmunds Book Shop).

 

E83

[Translation]  "The Last One, the First One," by Isaac E. Rontch [sic]. The Chicago Jewish Forum  10.3 (Spring 1952): 206.  From the Yiddish.  In M and LL.

 

E84

[Translations]  "Jewish Workers' Poems."  Jewish Life   6.5 (Mar. 1952): 17-18.  From the Yiddish.  Includes:  "To the Muse" (17) by David Edelshtat, in CYP and M; "The Day is Unfolding" (17) by David Edelshtat, in DV; "The Lion" (17-18) by Morris Rosenfeld, in CYP, DV, M, and TM; "The Sweatshop" (17-18)

by Morris Rosenfeld, in DV and, titled "Corner of Pain and Anguish," in CYP, M and TM; "A Cry of Anguish" (18) in DV and M as "I Hear a Cry"; and "A Broom, and Watch Me Sweep" (18) by Morris Winchevsky, in CYP, DV and M.

 

E85

[Translations]  "Six Poems by Joseph Bovshover."  Jewish Life  6.6  (Apr. 1952): 18-19.  From the Yiddish.  Includes: "In Memory of David Edelshtat" (18), in M; "Mother and Daughter" (18), in CYP and M; "The Sighing Voice" (18), in M; "Verses" (18), in M; "To My Brothers" (19), in CYP, DV and M; "My Final Wish" (19), in DV.

 

E86

[Poem]  "Vesey Speaks to the Congregation."  Jewish Life  6.9 (July 1952): 13.  In DV as part of the title poem.

 

E87

[Poem]  "The Hanging Song."  National Guardian  4 July 1952: 9.  Printed, along with a sizeable introduction, in an article titled "Denmark Vesey, July 2, 1822."  In DV.

 

 

 

                                                                           1953

 

 

E88

[Poem]  "A Meeting at Vesey's."  Jewish Life  7.4 (Feb. 1953): 9.  In DV as part of the title poem.

 

E89

[Poem]  "Singing."  Masses & Mainstream  6.4  (Apr. 1953): 33-34.  In RFD as introductory poem.

 

 

 

                                                                           1954

 

 

E90

[Essay]  "Maxwell Bodenheim."  National Guardian  22 Feb. 1954: 7.  A memorial tribute read, on Kramer's behalf, at Bodenheim's funeral by Alfred Kreymborg, later at a Poetry Society of America meeting by Kramer who also read a group of Bodenheim poems, and subsequently described on the jacket and in the foreword of Bodenheim's autobiography, My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village (5).  Reprinted as conclusion of "Bodenheim: A Personal Note," in BB.

 

E91

[Poem]  "Freedom Song."  National Guardian  4 July 1954: 11. In RFD as the final section of "The Bell and the Light," providing the volume's title.  Incorporated into the final section of Waldemar Hille's oratorio Moses.  In BB as "The Hour."

 

E

[Poem] "A Song for Singers." Daily Worker 11 Aug. 1954: N. pag.  In RFD.

 

 

 

                                                                           1955

 

 

E92

[Poem]  "Letters from Kansas."  Masses & Mainstream  8.4 (Apr. 1955): 28-32.  In AB, untitled, as Section 2.  Two songs appear in M (28-29).  In BB titled as Section 2 of  "A Ballad of August Bondi."

 

E93

[Poem]  "A Ballad of August Bondi."  Jewish Life  9.7 (May 1955): 12-14.  The excerpts are Sections One, Three, and Four of AB.  Section Two is summarized only.  In BB.

 

E94

[Poem].  "Einstein."  National Guardian  2 May 1955: 2.  Published immediately after Einstein's death on 18 April 1955.  In BB.

 

E95

[Translation]  "Walt Whitman (America's Great Poet)," by Morris Rosenfeld.  Jewish Life  9.9  (July 1955): 20.  From the Yiddish.  Published on the occasion of the centenary of the first publication of Leaves of Grass, 4 July 1855.  In M, TM, and CYP.

 

E96

[Essay]  "A Double World."  National Guardian  11 July 1955: 8.  Review of Figures From a Double World by Thomas McGrath (Swallow).

 

E97

[Poem]  "Tompkins Square."  Masses & Mainstream  8.10 (Oct. 1955): 29.  In TC and BB.

 

E98

[Translations]  "Four Women Poets."  Jewish Life  10.1 (Nov. 1955): 13-16.  From the Yiddish.  Biographical notes by Kramer appear on pp. 13-14.  Includes "The Mothers Rejoice" (14-15) by Sarah Barkan (1888-1957); "Brothers in Town and in City" (15) by Sarah Fell-Yellin (1895-1968); "On the Uphill of Time" (15-16) by Hannah Safran (1902-    ) in CYP; and "My Mother's Hands" (16) by Dora Teitelboim (1914- 1992) in CYP and AMY.  The poems were translated c.1948.

 

E99

[Poem]  "Blues for Emmett Till."  National Guardian  7 Nov. 1955: 4.  Written in response to the 28 August 1955 shooting murder of the young black man in Mississippi.

 

 

                                                                             

                                                                           1956

 

 

E100

[Essay]  "A Legacy of Light: The Poems of Edwin Rolfe."  National Guardian  2 Jan. 1956: 10.  Review of Permit Me Refuge by Edwin Rolfe (California Quarterly).

 

E101

[Translation]  "Heinrich Heine," by Morris Rosenfeld.  Jewish Life  10.5 (Mar. 1956): 7.  From the Yiddish.  In M.

 

E102

[Translation]  "The Silesian Weavers," by Heinrich Heine.  Jewish LIfe  10.7 (May 1956): 11.  From the German.  In HH1 and HH2.

 

E103

[Essay]  "The Link Between Heinrich Heine and Emma Lazarus." Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society  45.4 (June 1956): 248-257.  Based on a chapter in Kramer's unpublished master's thesis, Emma Lazarus: Her Life and Work, Brooklyn College, 1951.  Available in microform at the Brooklyn College Library.  Essay reprinted as a pamphlet.  In BB.

 

E104

[Poem]  "Threnody."  New York Times  21 July 1956: 14.  In RH.

 

E105

[Translation]  "The Concert of Concerts," by Adam Mickiewicz. Polish Review  1.4 (Autumn 1956): 63-67.  From the Polish.  Translation from Pan Tadeusz, Book Ten.  Reprinted as a pamphlet in 1957.

 

E106

[Poem]  "For Peretz Markish and Itzik Feffer."  Jewish Life  11.1 (Nov. 1956): 23.  First admission by the journal (and buried in an obscure corner) that the Soviet-Yiddish poets had been murdered; a fact subsequently ignored by its editors for years.  As a result, Kramer terminated his connection with the journal for almost twenty-five years, although a few items remained to be published in its pages.  In BB.

 

 

                                                                           1957

 

 

E107

[Poem]  "In Us Lives the Music."  Jewish Life  11.3 (Jan. 1957): 19.  An excerpt comprising Part One of a six-part verse narration performed at Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY on 29 December 1956 by Kramer and at the Wilshire Ebell Theater, Los Angeles, CA on 19 January 1957.  Mimeographed copies of the entire narration were distributed to both audiences.

 

E108

[Poems]  "Three Songs in Memory of My Father."  Venture  2.4 (1957/58): 40-41.  First two poems in TC, the third in M.  In BB.

 

 

 

                                                                           1958

 

 

E109

[Essay]  "Sholem Asch: A Symposium."  Jewish Currents  12.1 (Jan. 1958): 11-12.  Jewish Life name changes to Jewish Currents as of this issue.  Kramer, Sidney Finkelstein, and Ben Levine provide memorial assessments.

 

E110

[Translation]  "I Learn By Watching Flowers," by Sarah Barkan.  Jewish Currents  12.2  (Feb. 1958): 14.  From the Yiddish.  Translated  c.1948.  Published at Barkan's death.

 

E111

[Poem]  "The Widower."  New York Times  8 Oct. 1958: 34.  In RH.

 

E112

[Poems]  "Poems of New York."  NYU Square Journal (Monthly Literary Supplement)  3 Nov. 1958: Section 2: 3.  Includes "Ballad of West 13th Street" (in TC and BB), "The Tune of the Calliope" (in TC), "Treatment" (in TGR in group titled "Advertisements" and in TC), "Alma Mater" (in TC), and "Nocturne" (in TC).

 

 

 

                                                                           1959

 

 

E113

[Translation]  "My Home and My Land," by Chaim Schwartz (1903-        ).  Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born (1959): 11.  From the Yiddish.

 

E114

[Poem]  "Year's End."  New York Times  1 Jan. 1959: 30.  In RH.

 

E115

[Poem]  "`When I Have Fears...'."  New York Times  5 Mar. 1959: 30.  In RH.

 

E116

[Poem]  "To a Certain Wind."  New York Herald Tribune  13 Mar. 1959: 14.  In M and BB.

 

E117

[Poem]  "Gulls."  New York Herald Tribune  8 May 1959: 12.  In RH.

 

E118

[Poem]  "'Massacre of the Innocents' (Vatican Museum)."  New York Herald Tribune  23 July 1959: 12.  In RH.

 

E119

[Poem]  "In the Woods."  New York Times  13 Aug. 1959: 26.  In RH.

 

E120

[Poem]  "The Visit."  New York Herald Tribune  31 Aug. 1959: 12.  In M.

 

E121

[Poem]  "Warning."  New York Herald Tribune  5 Nov. 1959: 20.  In RH, as the first of three sonnets comprising "Fire!!"

 

E122

[Poem]  "Three Years."  New York Times  8 Dec. 1959: 44.  In  RH.

 

 

 

                                                                           1960

 

 

E123

[Poem]  "Birthday."  New York Herald Tribune  8 Jan. 1960: 12.  In RH.

 

E124

[Poem]  "Decade's Birth."  New Republic  25 Jan. 1960: 13.  In RH.

 

E125

[Poem]  "As If an Oak."  The Klaxon  (Bogota High School, Bogota, NJ 07603)  16.5 (29 Jan. 1960): 1.  Unattributed.  Published in memory of Mabel B. Tasca, Kramer’s colleague at the high school, but written in 1957 for Kate Dobronyi, Katherine Kramer's grandmother, and read at her funeral.  Reprinted for many years on the Bogota High School Drama Awards program, dedicated to Tasca's memory.  In M.

 

E126

[Poem]  "Snowsong."  New York Times  1 Feb. 1960: 26.  In RH.

 

E127

[Poem]  "For a Teacher Who Died in the New Year."  New York Herald Tribune  18 Feb. 1960: [N. pag.]  For Mabel B. Tasca, Kramer's colleague at Bogota High School, Bogota, NJ 07603.  In RH.

 

E128

[Poem]  "Love Song."  New York Herald Tribune  5 Apr. 1960: 18.  In M and BB.

 

E129

[Poem]  "To the Wind."  New York Times  10 Apr. 1960: 10E.  In RH.

 

E130

[Poem]  "The Voice of the Gulf."  New York Herald Tribune  20 May 1960: 14.  In RH.

 

E131

[Poem]  "In Power."  New York Times  12 June 1960: 10E.  Lines 1-4 omitted from Times.  The imagined speaker is Fidel Castro who, several months after taking power, was now cracking down on dissenters.  In RH.

 

E132

[Poem]  "Graduation Ode."  Klaxon (Bogota High School, Bogota, NJ 07603)  17 June 1960: 2.  In RH as "Commencement."

 

E133

[Poem]  "His Something."  New York Times  4 July 1960: 12. In WP.

 

E134

[Poem]  "The Uninvited."  New York Herald Tribune  10 Aug. 1960: 16.  In RH.

 

E135

[Poem]  "Parade."  New York Times  13 Aug. 1960: 14.  In RH.

 

E136

[Poem]  "A Parting Word."  New York Times  3 Oct. 1960: [np].  Part of "Poems For My Mother," written in 1956 on the 60th birthday of Kramer's mother.  In M and BB.

 

E137

[Poem]  "Gray Bird."  New York Herald Tribune  21 Nov. 1960: 22.  For Boris Pasternak, then under house-arrest.  In RH and BB.

 

E138

[Poem]  "At Dante's Tomb."  Hartford Times  29 Nov. 1960: 26.  In RH.

 

E139

[Poem]  "Cablegram."  New York Times  27 Dec. 1960: 28.  In RH.

 

E140

[Poem]  "Israel in Egypt."  Hartford Courant  31 Dec. 1960: 10.  In M, as part of Section One of the title poem, and in BB.  First line: "Once we were free-- imagine!"

 

E141

[Poem]  "Nocturne."  Boston Herald  31 Dec. 1960: 4.  In RH, as final poem.