KREYMBORG, ALFRED

KREYMBORG, ALFRED
KREYMBORG, ALFRED (1883–1966), U.S. poet and playwright. Kreymborg's verse collections include Mushrooms (1916), Manhattan Men (1929), Prologue in Hell (1930), The Little World, 1914 and After (1932), and No More War (1950). As editor of the experimental periodicals Globe and Broom, he stimulated young poets, but reached a wider public with Lyric America (1930) and American Caravan (1927–36), an anthology of experimental writing of which he was coeditor. In the late 1930s he wrote verse plays for radio, including The Planets (1938), a pacifist allegory. His other works include the novel I'm No Hero (1933).

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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