He retired from Central High School in 1961, although he began to teach grammar and composition at the Paterson, New Jersey, extension of Rutgers University until 1976.
Her illness was the focal point for Allen's poem "Kaddish", in which he wrote: "and Louis needing a poor divorce, he wants to get married soon".
[16] Louis' poems appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, Munsey's Magazine, The Forum, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Masses, the New York Evening Post, Argosy, the Newark Evening News and other periodicals, as well as in Modern American Poetry: A Critical Anthology, Third Revised Edition (1925) and Modern British Poetry, both edited by Louis Untermeyer.
His collection of puns was never published, but can be found in Box 2, Folder 9, in the Louis Ginsberg Papers at Stanford University.
[21] Louis Ginsberg, who died of liver and spleen cancer, told his son Allen, "I never thought my pun would come back to bite me."