Desperate for money, Lindsay undertook an exhausting string of readings throughout the East and Midwest from October 1928 through March 1929. During this time, "Poetry magazine" awarded him a lifetime achievement award of $500 (equivalent to about $ in 2012 dollars). In April 1929, Lindsay and his family moved to the house of his birth in Springfield, Illinois, an expensive undertaking. In that same year, coinciding with the Stock Market Crash of 1929, Lindsay published two more poetry volumes: "The Litany of Washington Street" and "Every Soul A Circus". He gained money by doing odd jobs throughout but in general earned very little during his travels.