carl sandburg

     

On Feb. 12, 1959, the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, he addressed a joint session of Congress

Trivia about carl sandburg

  • In 1922 this Illinois poet published a collection called "Slabs of the Sunburnt West"
  • "Hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads..."
  • In 1916 he gave us his "Chicago Poems"
  • Many schools are named for Lincoln; one in Orland Park, Illinois is named for this poet & Lincoln biographer
  • He became a reporter for the Chicago Daily News in 1917, a year after his "Chicago Poems" was published
  • American poet who wrote the following:("The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.")
  • This Illinois poet wrote what many consider to be the definitive biography of Abraham Lincoln
  • He said of Chicago, "I have seen your painted women... luring the farm boys"
  • This poet & biographer's site isn't in Illinois but in Flat Rock, N.C.; he moved there & raised goats
  • Part of this poet's autobiography was reprinted in 1955 as "Prairie-Town Boy"
  • In his 1918 poem "Prairie", he wrote, "I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes"
  • In "The People, Yes" this poet wrote, "Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come"
  • This American won 2 Pulitzer Prizes: one for his poetry & one for his 4-volume biography of Lincoln
  • He wrote his 1914 poem "Chicago" while working as a newspaper writer in that city
  • In 1914 a group of his "Chicago Poems" appeared in Poetry magazine
  • In 1922 this poet & Lincoln biographer wrote "Rootabaga Stories" to entertain his 3 daughters
  • When the Spanish-American War broke out, this poet enlisted in the 6th Illinois Infantry