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American writer and editor (1878–1967)
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Carl Sandburg
Sandburg in 1955
Born
Carl Sandberg
1878-01-06
January 6, 1878
Galesburg, Illinois
, U.S.
Died
July 22, 1967
(1967-07-22)
(aged 89)
Flat Rock, North Carolina
, U.S.
Occupation
Journalist, author, and editor
Education
Lombard College
(non-graduate)
Notable works
Chicago Poems
The People, Yes
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years
Rootabaga Stories
Notable awards
Pulitzer Prize
(1919, 1940, 1951)
Robert Frost Medal
(1952)
Presidential Medal of Freedom
(1964)
Military Service
Allegiance
United States
Branch
U.S. Army
Service years
1898
Rank
Private
Unit
6th Illinois Infantry
Conflicts
Spanish–American War
Puerto Rico
Spouse
Lilian Steichen
m.
1908)
Children
Relatives
Edward Steichen
(brother-in-law)
George Crile Jr.
(son-in-law)
Mary Calderone
(niece)
Signature
Carl August Sandburg
(January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three
Pulitzer Prizes
: two for his poetry and one for his biography of
Abraham Lincoln
. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including
Chicago Poems
(1916),
Cornhuskers
(1918), and
Smoke and Steel
(1920).
He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life".
When he died in 1967, President
Lyndon B. Johnson
observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."
Life
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Sandburg
c.
1914
Carl Sandburg was born in a three-room cottage at 313 East Third Street in
Galesburg, Illinois
, to Clara Mathilda (
née
Anderson) and August Sandberg,
both of
Swedish
ancestry.
He adopted the nickname "Charles" or “Charlie” in elementary school and, along with his two oldest siblings, changed the spelling of the family name to "Sandburg".
At the age of thirteen, Sandburg left school and began driving a
milk wagon
. Between approximately ages fourteen and seventeen or eighteen, he worked as a porter at the Union Hotel barbershop in Galesburg.
He later returned to the milk route for eighteen months before working as a bricklayer and a farm laborer on the wheat plains of
Kansas
After a period at
Lombard College
in Galesburg,
10
Sandburg worked in various jobs, including as a hotel servant in
Denver
and a coal-heaver in
Omaha, Nebraska
. He began his writing career as a journalist for the
Chicago Daily News
and went on to write poetry, history, biographies, novels, children’s literature, and film reviews. He also collected and edited books of ballads and folklore. Sandburg lived primarily in
Illinois
Wisconsin
, and
Michigan
before moving to
North Carolina
During the
Spanish–American War
, Sandburg volunteered for military service and was stationed in
Puerto Rico
with the 6th Illinois Infantry,
11
landing at
Guánica
on July 25, 1898, though he did not see combat. He attended the
United States Military Academy
in
West Point, New York
for two weeks but left after failing mathematics and grammar examinations. He returned to Galesburg and entered Lombard College, leaving without a degree in 1903.
Sandburg subsequently moved to
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
, where he worked for a newspaper and joined the Wisconsin Social Democratic Party, affiliated with the
Socialist Party of America
. Sandburg served as secretary to
Emil Seidel
, Milwaukee’s socialist mayor from 1910 to 1912. Sandburg later stated that his experiences in Milwaukee were formative for his life and work.
12
Sandburg's home in
Ravenswood, Chicago
, where he wrote "Chicago", designated a
Chicago Landmark
in 2005.
13
In 1907, Sandburg met Lilian Steichen (1883–1977), sister of photographer
Edward Steichen
, at the Milwaukee Social Democratic Party office. They married the following year and had three daughters. Their first daughter, Margaret, was born in 1911. The family later lived in
Harbert, Michigan
; the
Ravenswood
neighborhood of Chicago; and then in
Maywood, Illinois
12
13
From 1919 to 1930, they resided at 331 South York Street in
Elmhurst, Illinois
During his years living in Chicago's western suburbs, Sandburg published several major works, including
Chicago Poems
(1916),
Cornhuskers
(1918), and
Smoke and Steel
(1920).
He received a
Pulitzer Prize
in 1919, funded by a special grant from the
Poetry Society of America
, for
Cornhuskers
14
He also wrote three children’s books—
Rootabaga Stories
(1922),
Rootabaga Pigeons
(1923), and
Potato Face
(1930)—as well as
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years
(1926),
The American Songbag
(1927), and
Good Morning, America
(1928). The Elmhurst home was later demolished; the site is now a parking lot.
Sandburg moved to Michigan in 1930. In 1940, he won the
Pulitzer Prize for History
for
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
, the four-volume sequel to
The Prairie Years
, and in 1951 received a second
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
, for
Complete Poems
14
15
note 1
In 1945, he settled at
Connemara
, a 246-acre (100 ha) estate in
Flat Rock, Henderson County, North Carolina
, where he lived with his wife, daughters, and grandchildren and produced a substantial portion of his later writings.
16
Remembrance Rock gravesite
On February 12, 1959, during the 150th anniversary of
Abraham Lincoln
’s birth, Sandburg delivered an address before a joint session of Congress following actor
Fredric March
’s reading of the
Gettysburg Address
17
Sandburg supported the
civil rights movement
and received the
NAACP
Silver Plaque Award in recognition of his contributions to civil rights.
18
Sandburg died of
natural causes
in 1967 and his body was cremated. The ashes were interred under "Remembrance Rock", a granite boulder located behind his birth house in Galesburg.
19
note 2
Career
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Poetry and prose
edit
Rootabaga Stories
(book 1, 1922)
Much of Carl Sandburg's poetry, such as "
Chicago
", focused on
Chicago
, Illinois, where he spent time as a reporter for the
Chicago Daily News
and
The Day Book
. His most famous description of the city is as "Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler,/Stormy, Husky, Brawling, City of the Big Shoulders."
Sandburg earned
Pulitzer Prizes
for his collection
The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Corn Huskers
, and for his biography of
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
).
15
Sandburg is also remembered by generations of children for his
Rootabaga Stories
and
Rootabaga Pigeons
, a series of whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories he originally created for his own daughters.
The Rootabaga Stories
were born of Sandburg's desire for "American fairy tales" to match American childhood. He felt that the European stories involving royalty and knights were inappropriate, and so populated his stories with skyscrapers, trains, corn fairies and the "Five Marvelous Pretzels".
In 1919, Sandburg was assigned by his editor at the
Daily News
to do a series of reports on the working classes and tensions among whites and
African Americans
. The impetus for these reports were race riots that had broken out in other American cities. Ultimately,
major riots
broke out in Chicago too, but much of Sandburg's writing on the issues before the riots caused him to be seen as having a prophetic voice. A visiting philanthropist,
Joel Spingarn
, who was also an official of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
, read Sandburg's columns with interest and asked to publish them, as
The Chicago Race Riots, July, 1919
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Lincoln works
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Sandburg's popular multivolume biography
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years
, 2 vols. (1926) and
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
, 4 vols. (1939) are collectively "the best-selling, most widely read, and most influential book[s] about Lincoln."
22
The books have been through many editions, including a one-volume edition in 1954 prepared by Sandburg.
Sandburg's biography of Lincoln
Sandburg's Lincoln scholarship had an enormous impact on the popular view of Lincoln. The books were adapted by
Robert E. Sherwood
for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play,
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
(1938) and
David Wolper
's six-part dramatization for television,
Sandburg's Lincoln
(1974). He recorded excerpts from the biography and some of Lincoln's speeches for
Caedmon Records
in
New York City
in May 1957. He was awarded a
Grammy Award
in 1959 for
Best Performance – Documentary Or Spoken Word (Other Than Comedy)
for his recording of
Aaron Copland
's
Lincoln Portrait
with the
New York Philharmonic
. Some historians suggest more Americans learned about Lincoln from Sandburg than from any other source.
23
The books garnered critical praise and attention for Sandburg, including the 1940
Pulitzer Prize for History
for the four-volume
The War Years
. But Sandburg's works on Lincoln also received substantial criticism.
William E. Barton
, who had published a Lincoln biography in 1925, wrote that Sandburg's book "is not history, is not even biography" because of its lack of original research and uncritical use of evidence, but Barton nevertheless thought it was "real literature and a delightful and important contribution to the ever-lengthening shelf of really good books about Lincoln."
24
Historian
Milo Milton Quaife
criticized Sandburg for not documenting his sources and questioned the accuracy of
The Prairie Years
, noting they contain a number of factual errors.
22
Others have complained
The Prairie Years
and
The War Years
contain too much material that is neither biography nor history, saying the books are instead "sentimental poeticizing" by Sandburg.
22
Sandburg himself may have viewed his works more as an American epic than as a mere biography, a view also mirrored by other reviewers.
22
Folk music
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Sandburg's 1927 anthology the
American Songbag
enjoyed enormous popularity, going through many editions, and Sandburg himself was perhaps the first American urban folk singer, accompanying himself on solo guitar at lectures and poetry recitals, and in recordings, long before the first or the second folk revival movements (of the 1940s and 1960s, respectively).
25
According to the musicologist
Judith Tick
As a populist poet, Sandburg bestowed a powerful dignity on what the '20s called the "American scene" in a book he called a "ragbag of stripes and streaks of color from nearly all ends of the earth ... rich with the diversity of the United States." Reviewed widely in journals ranging from the
New Masses
to
Modern Music
, the
American Songbag
influenced a number of musicians. Pete Seeger, who calls it a "landmark", saw it "almost as soon as it came out." The composer Elie Siegmeister took it to Paris with him in 1927, and he and his wife Hannah "were always singing these songs. That was home. That was where we belonged."
26
Film
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Sandburg said he considered working on
D. W. Griffith
's
Intolerance
(1916), but his first film work was when he signed on to work on the production of
The Greatest Story Ever Told
(1965) in July 1960 for a year, receiving an "in creative association with Carl Sandburg" credit on the film.
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Legacy
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Portrait by H. J. Turner, 1923
Commemoration
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Carl Sandburg's boyhood home in Galesburg is now operated by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency as the
Carl Sandburg State Historic Site
. The site contains the cottage Sandburg was born in, a modern visitor center, and small garden with a large stone called Remembrance Rock, under which his and his wife's ashes are buried.
28
Sandburg's home of 22 years in
Flat Rock, Henderson County, North Carolina
, is preserved by the
National Park Service
as the
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Carl Sandburg College
is located in Sandburg's birthplace of
Galesburg, Illinois
Carl Sandburg High school
is located in Orland park, Illinois.
29
During the Spanish-American War, Sandburg was stationed at Camp Alger in Fairfax County, Virginia and so the county has both a Sandburg Road near the spot where the camp was located and a Carl Sandburg Middle School.
Sandburg on historical roots, displayed at
Deaf Smith County
Museum,
Hereford, Texas
On January 6, 1978, the 100th anniversary of his birth, the
United States Postal Service
issued a
commemorative stamp
honoring Sandburg. The spare design consists of a profile originally drawn by his friend
William A. Smith
in 1952, along with Sandburg's own distinctive autograph.
30
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
(RBML)
31
houses the Carl Sandburg Papers. The bulk of the collection was purchased directly from Carl Sandburg and his family. In total, the RBML owns over 600 cubic feet of Sandburg's papers, including photographs, correspondence, and manuscripts.
32
33
In 2011, Sandburg was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.
34
Namesakes
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Carl Sandburg Village
was a 1960s urban renewal project in the
Near North Side, Chicago
. Financed by the city, it is located between Clark and LaSalle St. between Division Street and North Ave. Solomon & Cordwell, architects. In 1979, Carl Sandburg Village was converted to condominium ownership.
Numerous schools are named for Sandburg throughout the United States, and he was present at some of these schools' dedications. (Some years after attending the 1954 dedication of
Carl Sandburg High School
in
Orland Park, Illinois
, Sandburg returned for an unannounced visit; the school's principal at first mistook him for a
hobo
.)
35
Sandburg Halls
, a student residence hall at the
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
, carries a plaque commemorating Sandburg's roles as an organizer for the Social Democratic Party and as personal secretary to
Emil Seidel
, Milwaukee's first Socialist mayor.
Carl Sandburg Library opened in
Livonia, Michigan
, in 1961. The name was recommended by the Library Commission as an example of an American author representing the best of literature of the Midwest. Carl Sandburg had taught at the
University of Michigan
for a time.
36
Galesburg opened
Sandburg Mall
in 1975, named in honor of Sandburg.
Amtrak added the
Carl Sandburg
train in 2006 to supplement the
Illinois Zephyr
on the
Chicago
Quincy
route.
37
Carl Sandburg Middle School
in Alexandria, Virginia, part of
Fairfax County Public Schools
, was named in honor of Sandburg in 1985.
In 2000, the Chicago Public Library Foundation created the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, given annually to "an acclaimed author whose work has enhanced the public’s awareness of the written word."
38
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Politics
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Carl Sandburg began his political involvement as an organizer for the Social Democratic Party of Wisconsin, affiliated with the Socialist Party of America, and served as secretary to Milwaukee's socialist mayor Emil Seidel from 1910 to 1912. Initially a committed
socialist
, he left the Socialist Party in 1917 due to disagreements with its opposition to U.S. participation in
World War I
, instead supporting President Woodrow Wilson's decision to enter the conflict.
40
Although Sandburg continued to hold some socialist sympathies—such as voting for Socialist Party candidate
Eugene V. Debs
in the
1920 United States presidential election
—he later described himself as a "radical independent". During the 1920s, his political views moved to the right, and he developed a strong interest in Abraham Lincoln, whose life and leadership became central themes in his work. This interest culminated in his publication of
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years
(1926) and
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
(1939). His study of Lincoln reflected an increasing alignment with
liberalism
41
In the 1930s, Sandburg's political orientation shifted toward the
Democratic Party
. He supported President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
and the
New Deal
, drawing parallels between Roosevelt’s policies and Lincoln’s leadership during the Civil War. Sandburg publicly expressed his support for New Deal programs such as
Social Security
and federal employment initiatives through his writings and public appearances.
42
43
By the 1950s, Sandburg endorsed Democratic presidential candidate
Adlai Stevenson II
in the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections, participating in campaign activities and publicly commending Stevenson's platform.
44
In 1960, he supported
John F. Kennedy
’s presidential campaign, speaking at rallies and expressing approval of Kennedy's
New Frontier
program, which he viewed as a continuation of Roosevelt’s legacy.
45
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William Saroyan
wrote a short story about Sandburg in his 1971 book
Letters from 74 rue Taitbout
or Don't Go But If You Must Say Hello To Everybody
Sandburg's "Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come" from
The People, Yes
was a slogan of the German peace movement ("
Stell dir vor, es ist Krieg, und keiner geht hin
"); however, it is often falsely attributed to
Bertolt Brecht
46
Daniel Steven Crafts'
The Song and The Slogan
is an orchestral composition built around recited passages from Sandburg's "Prairie".
Peter Louis van Dijk's "Windy City Songs", based on the
Chicago
poems, was performed by the
Chicago Children's Choir
and the
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Choir in 2007.
47
Bob Gibson
's "The Courtship of Carl Sandburg", starring
Tom Amandes
as Sandburg
48
In
Jonathan Lethem
's novel
Dissident Gardens
the main character Rose Zimmer became an
Abraham Lincoln
devotee after reading Sandburg's biography. Her copy of the six volumes became the centerpiece of her shrine to Lincoln.
Sufjan Stevens
's "Come on! Feel the Illinoise! Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream" (from
Illinois
).
Composer
Phyllis Zimmerman
set Sandburg's poems to music in her choral composition
Fog
, which was recorded and produced on CD.
49
In 2016, composer and conductor
Michael Tilson Thomas
premiered his musical theater piece
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind
based on the Sandburg poem from the collection
Smoke and Steel
, for three singers, chamber orchestra and bar band.
Bibliography
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Main article:
Carl Sandburg bibliography
In Reckless Ecstasy
(1904) (poetry) (originally published as Charles Sandburg)
Incidentals
(1904) (poetry and prose) (originally published as Charles Sandburg)
Plaint of a Rose
(1908) (poetry) (originally published as Charles Sandburg)
Joseffy
(1910) (prose) (originally published as Charles Sandburg)
You and Your Job
(1910) (prose) (originally published as Charles Sandburg)
Chicago Poems
(1916) (poetry)
Cornhuskers
(1918) (poetry)
Chicago Race Riots
(1919) (prose) (with an introduction by Walter Lippmann)
Clarence Darrow of Chicago
(1919) (prose)
Smoke and Steel
(1920) (poetry)
Rootabaga Stories
(1922) (children's stories)
Slabs of the Sunburnt West
(1922) (poetry)
Rootabaga Pigeons
(1923) (children's stories)
Selected Poems
(1926) (poetry)
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years
(1926) (biography)
The American Songbag
(1927) (folk songs)
50
51
Songs of America
(1927) (folk songs) (collected by Sandburg; edited by Alfred V. Frankenstein)
Abe Lincoln Grows Up
(1928) (biography [primarily for children])
Good Morning, America
(1928) (poetry)
Steichen the Photographer
(1929) (history)
Early Moon
(1930) (poetry)
Potato Face
(1930) (children's stories)
Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow
(1932) (biography)
The People, Yes
(1936) (poetry)
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
(1939) (biography)
Storm over the Land
(1942) (biography) (excerpts from Sandburg's own
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
Road to Victory
(1942) (exhibition catalog) (text by Sandburg; images compiled by
Edward Steichen
and published by the
Museum of Modern Art
Home Front Memo
(1943) (essays)
Remembrance Rock
(1948) (novel)
Lincoln Collector: the story of the
Oliver R. Barrett
Lincoln collection
(1949) (prose)
The New American Songbag
(1950) (folk songs)
Complete Poems
(1950) (poetry)
The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was In It
(1950) (children's story)
Always the Young Strangers
(1953) (autobiography)
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years
(1954) (illustrated one-volume edition)
Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg
(1954) (poetry) (edited by Rebecca West)
The Family of Man
(1955) (exhibition catalog) (introduction; images compiled by
Edward Steichen
Prairie-Town Boy
(1955) (autobiography) (essentially excerpts from
Always the Young Strangers
Sandburg Range
(1957) (prose and poetry)
Harvest Poems, 1910–1960
(1960) (poetry)
Wind Song
(1960) (poetry)
The World of Carl Sandburg
(1960) (stage production) (adapted and directed by
Norman Corwin
, dramatic readings by
Bette Davis
and
Leif Erickson
, singing and guitar by
Clark Allen
, with closing cameo by Sandburg himself)
Carl Sandburg at Gettysburg
(1961) (documentary)
Honey and Salt
(1963) (poetry)
The Letters of Carl Sandburg
(1968) (autobiographical/correspondence) (edited by Herbert Mitgang)
Breathing Tokens
(poetry by Sandburg, edited by Margaret Sandburg) (1978) (poetry)
Ever the Winds of Chance
(1983) (autobiography) (started by Sandburg, completed by Margaret Sandburg and George Hendrick)
Carl Sandburg at the Movies: a poet in the silent era, 1920–1927
(1985) (selections of his reviews of silent movies; collected and edited by Dale Fetherling and Doug Fetherling)
Billy Sunday and other poems
(1993) (edited with an introduction by George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick)
Poems for Children Nowhere Near Old Enough to Vote
(1999) (compiled and with an introduction by George and Willene Hendrick)
Poems for the People.
(1999) 73 newfound poems from his early years in Chicago, edited with an introduction by George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years
(2007) (illustrated edition with an introduction by Alan Axelrod)
See also
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Poetry portal
Novels portal
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
References
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Footnotes
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The
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
was inaugurated in 1922 but the organization now considers the first winners to be three recipients of 1918 and 1919 special awards.
His wife and two daughters would also be interred there. See the signage.
Notes
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Sandburg, Carl (1953).
Always the Young Strangers
. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. pp. 29, 39.
Sandburg's father's last name was originally "Danielson" or "Sturm". He could read but not write, and he accepted whatever spelling other people used. The young Carl, sister Mary, and brother Mart changed the spelling to "Sandburg" when in elementary school.
Danilov, Victor (September 26, 2013).
Famous Americans: A Directory of Museums, Historic Sites, and Memorials
. Scarecrow Press. p. 198.
ISBN
9780810891869
. Retrieved
January 6,
2015
Heitman, Danny (March–April 2013).
"A Workingman's Poet"
Humanities
. Retrieved
January 6,
2014
Callahan, North (October 1, 1990).
Carl Sandburg: His Life and Works
. Pennsylvania State University Press. p. 233.
ISBN
978-0271004860
. Retrieved
January 7,
2015
"Carl Sandburg"
, United States History.
Sandburg in 1953 was not able to recall his younger self's reasons, but he relates that being able to correctly pronounce "ch" was a mark of assimilation among Swedish immigrants.
Penelope Niven (August 18, 2012).
"American Masters: Carl Sandburg Timeline"
. PBS
. Retrieved
January 19,
2014
Prairie-Town Boy
, by Carl Sandburg, 1955.
"timforsythe.com"
Deprecated link
archived February 16, 2013, at
archive.today
Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg
, edited by Rebecca West, 1954
Carl Sandburg College
"History"
Archived
February 7, 2013, at the
Wayback Machine
Mason, Herbert Molloy Jr. (1999). Kolb, Richard K. (ed.).
VFW: Our First Century
Lenexa, Kansas
: Addax Publishing Group. pp.
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ISBN
1-88611072-7
LCCN
99-24943
"Carl Sandburg and the Steichens"
. January 1998.
"Carl Sandburg House"
(PDF)
. City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Landmarks Division. October 4, 2006.
Archived
(PDF)
from the original on October 9, 2022
. Retrieved
August 28,
2019
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. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
"12 Search Results"
. Pulitzer.org
. Retrieved
April 25,
2013
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www.nps.gov
. Retrieved
January 21,
2017
"Nation Honor Lincoln On Sesquicentennial"
(PDF)
Yonkers Herald Statesman
Northern Illinois University Libraries
Associated Press
. February 11, 1959. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on November 1, 2013
. Retrieved
April 25,
2013
Congress gets into the act tomorrow, when a joint session will be held. Carl Sandburg, famed Lincoln biographer, will give and address, and actor
Fredric March
will read the
Gettysburg Address
"Carl Sandburg cited by NAACP"
Baltimore Afro-American
. November 30, 1965.
"Carl Sandburg's ashes placed under Remembrance Rock".
The New York Times
. October 2, 1967. p. 61.
Grossman, Ron (July 19, 2019).
"Flashback: Before Chicago erupted into race riots in 1919, Carl Sandburg reported on the fissures"
Chicago Tribune
. Retrieved
July 21,
2019
Sandburg, Carl (1919).
The Chicago Race Riots July, 1919
. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe
. Retrieved
July 21,
2019
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"Sandburg's Lincoln within History"
Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association
20
(1):
55–
65.
doi
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hdl
2027/spo.2629860.0020.105
Niven, Penelope,
Carl Sandburg: A Biography
(New York: Scribner's, 1991), p. 536.
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American Historical Review
31 (July 1926): pp. 809–11.
Malone, Bill C., and David Stricklin (2003).
Southern Music/American Music
(University Press of Kentucky, 2003), p. 33.
Tick, Judith,
Ruth Crawford Seeger, A Composer's Search for American Music
(Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 57.
"Carl Sandburg on 20th's 'Greatest'
Variety
. July 6, 1960. p. 24
. Retrieved
February 6,
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– via
Archive.org
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. Sandburg.org
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April 25,
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sandburg.d230.org
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February 9,
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. Library.uiuc.edu. Archived from
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2013
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. library.illinois.edu
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December 18,
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. library.illinois.edu
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Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
. 2011
. Retrieved
October 14,
2017
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2013
Amtrak Press Release, October 8, 2006.
Amtrak.com.
"About the Chicago Public Library Foundation Awards"
Chicago Public Library Foundation
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2025
"October 23 Dinner Honors Allende, Lewis and Sneed"
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2014
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«Carl Sandburg». *Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature*.
«Carl Sandburg». *NCpedia*. 2013.
«Political Leadership and the Need for a New America». *History News Network*. 2019.
«The Other Carl Sandburg». *IWW Store*.
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"von Brecht?"
Die Zeit
. August 12, 2004.
"Nelson Mandela University Choir History"
. Retrieved
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2019
"Bob Gibson's 'The Courtship of Carl Sandburg'"
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"earthsongs, one world · many voices"
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2021
"Carl Sandburg Sings On WMAQ Today"
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2010
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Poets laureate of Illinois
Howard Austin
(1936–1962)
Carl Sandburg
(1962–1967)
Gwendolyn Brooks
(1968–2000)
Kevin Stein
(2003–2017)
Angela Jackson
(2020–present)
Further reading
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Niven, Penelope.
Carl Sandburg: A Biography
. New York: Scribner's, 1991.
Sandburg, Carl.
The Letters of Carl Sandburg
. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.
Sandburg, Helga.
A Great and Glorious Romance: The Story of Carl Sandburg and Lilian Steichen
. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
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John Brown's Body
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Stephen Vincent Benét
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George Dillon
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Conquistador
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Robert P. T. Coffin
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A Further Range
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Robert Frost
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Cold Morning Sky
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Marya Zaturenska
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John Gould Fletcher
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Mark Van Doren
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Sunderland Capture
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Leonard Bacon
(1941)
The Dust Which Is God
by
William Rose Benét
(1942)
A Witness Tree
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Robert Frost
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Western Star
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Stephen Vincent Benét
(1944)
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Karl Shapiro
(1945)
Lord Weary's Castle
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Robert Lowell
(1947)
The Age of Anxiety
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W. H. Auden
(1948)
Terror and Decorum
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Peter Viereck
(1949)
Annie Allen
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Gwendolyn Brooks
(1950)
1951–1975
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(1951)
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Stanley Kunitz
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Heart's Needle
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W. D. Snodgrass
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William Carlos Williams
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Louis Simpson
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Anne Sexton
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Anthony Hecht
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Richard Howard
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The Carrier of Ladders
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W. S. Merwin
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Maxine Kumin
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Robert Lowell
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Turtle Island
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Gary Snyder
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John Ashbery
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Divine Comedies
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James Merrill
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Now and Then
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Robert Penn Warren
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Donald Justice
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The Morning of the Poem
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James Schuyler
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Sylvia Plath
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Galway Kinnell
(1983)
American Primitive
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Mary Oliver
(1984)
Yin
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Carolyn Kizer
(1985)
The Flying Change
by
Henry S. Taylor
(1986)
Thomas and Beulah
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Rita Dove
(1987)
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William Meredith
(1988)
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Richard Wilbur
(1989)
The World Doesn't End
by
Charles Simic
(1990)
Near Changes
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Mona Van Duyn
(1991)
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James Tate
(1992)
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Louise Glück
(1993)
Neon Vernacular
by
Yusef Komunyakaa
(1994)
The Simple Truth
by
Philip Levine
(1995)
The Dream of the Unified Field
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Jorie Graham
(1996)
Alive Together
by
Lisel Mueller
(1997)
Black Zodiac
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Charles Wright
(1998)
Blizzard of One
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Mark Strand
(1999)
Repair
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C. K. Williams
(2000)
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Different Hours
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Stephen Dunn
(2001)
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Carl Dennis
(2002)
Moy Sand and Gravel
by
Paul Muldoon
(2003)
Walking to Martha's Vineyard
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Franz Wright
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Ted Kooser
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Claudia Emerson
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Native Guard
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Natasha Trethewey
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Robert Hass
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Failure
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Philip Schultz
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Rae Armantrout
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(2011)
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(2015)
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(2016)
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(2017)
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(2018)
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Forrest Gander
(2019)
The Tradition
by
Jericho Brown
(2020)
Postcolonial Love Poem
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Natalie Diaz
(2021)
frank
by
Diane Seuss
(2022)
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Carl Phillips
(2023)
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Brandon Som
(2024)
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Marie Howe
(2025)
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Love Songs
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