Contributors included Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, Edgar Lee Masters, Witter Bynner, Arthur Davison Ficke, Floyd Dell, Vachel Lindsay and Sherwood Anderson.

Bodenheim was a co-founder alongside sculptor and dancer Lou Wall Moore, of “The Shop,” a bohemian social club in Chicago.

[5] While the poet was living in New York City, he became an active member of the Raven Poetry Circle of Greenwich Village.

Bodenheim's novels include Blackguard (1923), Replenishing Jessica (1925), Ninth Avenue (1926), Georgia May (1927), Naked on Roller Skates (1930) and A Virtuous Girl (1930).

Critic John Strausbaugh suggests that Bodenheim had "a real talent for scandal, easy enough to generate during Greenwich Village's prolonged drunken orgy in the Prohibition years."

Strausbaugh notes that Bodenheim's "haughty, insulting demeanor, and his habit of trying to steal other men's women right under their noses, got him regularly socked on the jaw and thrown out of bars, soirees and the fauxhemian revels at Webster Hall.

"[7] For many years a leading figure of the Bohemian scene in New York's Greenwich Village, Bodenheim deteriorated rapidly after his success in the 1920s and 1930s.

He will tell me, his voice like jewels Dropped into a satin bag, How he has tip-toed after me down the road, His heart made a dark whirlpool with longing for me.

[8] In approximately 1953, Bodenheim and Ruth spent some time (perhaps two months) as guests of the Catholic Worker of Dorothy Day in New York.

[9] Bodenheim and Ruth were murdered February 6, 1954, at a flophouse at 97 Third Avenue in Manhattan, by a 25-year-old dishwasher, Harold "Charlie" Weinberg.

Bodenheim's ex-wife, Minna Schein, made arrangements to have him buried in her family plot in Cedar Park Cemetery, Emerson, New Jersey.