Carl Sandburg

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This man better known for his Chicago poems won a 1919 Pulitzer Prize for his "Cornhuskers" collection Carl Sandburg $1,600 DJ AMERICAN POETRY 2025-03-24 #9296
"Big Shoulders" to cry on; Spanish-American War vet; his kind of town, "Chicago" is Sandburg $1,600 DJ WHO'S THAT POET? 2023-07-17 #8916
This Chicago poet wrote that "The fog comes on little cat feet" Sandburg $1,600 DJ POETRY 2021-07-20 #8447
This "Chicago" poet was Illinois' poet laureate in the last years of his life from 1962 to 1967 Carl Sandburg $800 DJ AMERICAN POETS LAUREATE 2019-10-14 #8071
"Omaha" is a poem in the 1920 collection "Smoke and Steel" by this man better known for writing about Chicago (Carl) Sandburg $2,000 DJ AMERICAN POETS 2016-03-21 #7261
Illinois native who was "The Poet of the People" Carl Sandburg $1,600 DJ POETS' MONIKERS 2015-04-06 #7041
The "Complete Poems" of this "Chicago" man took the 1951 prize (Carl) Sandburg $1,200 DJ THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY 2010-07-22 #5969
In 1922 this poet & Lincoln biographer wrote "Rootabaga Stories" to entertain his 3 daughters Carl Sandburg $1,600 DJ AMERICAN POETS & POETRY 2007-07-12 #5274
"Seldom does a first book contain so few unsuccessful things", said Amy Lowell of his "Chicago Poems" Sandburg $600 J POETS & POETRY 2007-01-23 #5152
He wrote his 1914 poem "Chicago" while working as a newspaper writer in that city Carl Sandburg DD $1,000 J POETS & POETRY 2002-11-21 #4194
Included in his "Chicago Poems" collection is that one about fog coming "on little cat feet" (Carl) Sandburg $400 DJ POETS & POETRY 2001-05-31 #3869
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.") Carl Sandburg $400 J HOW POETIC 1998-06-02 #3182
"Hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads..." Carl Sandburg $200 DJ NAME THE POET 1997-01-14 #2852
On Feb. 12, 1959, the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, he addressed a joint session of Congress Carl Sandburg $200 DJ POETS 1996-12-06 #2825
This Illinois poet's "Complete Poems" won in 1951; his "Corn Huskers" shared a 1919 prize Carl Sandburg $200 DJ PULITZER PRIZE POETS 1996-05-22 #2713
You can visit this poet's grave & a museum devoted to his life & works in Galesburg, Illinois Carl Sandburg $600 DJ POETS 1996-03-11 #2661
In 1968 Gwendolyn Brooks succeeded this man as Poet Laureate of Illinois Carl Sandburg FJ POETS 1996-02-01 #2634
He became a reporter for the Chicago Daily News in 1917, a year after his "Chicago Poems" was published Carl Sandburg $400 DJ POETS 1996-01-11 #2619
In 1922 this Illinois poet published a collection called "Slabs of the Sunburnt West" Carl Sandburg $200 J POETS & POETRY 1995-11-17 #2580
During the Spanish- American War, this "Chicago" poet served in the 6th Illinois infantry Sandburg $200 DJ POETS 1994-12-15 #2369
This Lincoln biographer was born in Galesburg, Ill. 20 years after Lincoln debated Douglas there Carl Sandburg $200 DJ POETS 1994-10-25 #2332
He wrote the poem "Chicago Poet" for "Cornhuskers", his 1918 collection Carl Sandburg $300 J POETS 1994-07-12 #2287
This poet moved to Chicago in 1912 & later joined the staff of the Chicago Daily News Carl Sandburg $600 DJ POETRY 1994-05-09 #2241
The poet who told us, "Smoke and blood is the mix of steel" Carl Sandburg DD $2,000 DJ POETRY 1994-04-29 #2235
This poet's birthplace in Galesburg, Ill. displays a first edition of his Lincoln biography Sandburg $400 DJ POETS & POETRY 1993-06-28 #2046
"A bar of steel--it is only smoke at the heart of it", he wrote in "Smoke and Steel" Carl Sandburg $800 DJ POETS & POETRY 1993-05-31 #2026
From 1910 to 1912 this "Chicago" poet served as secretary to the Mayor of Milwaukee Sandburg $400 DJ POETRY 1993-02-16 #1952
Poet & Lincoln biographer who wrote about Lincoln's death in "Cool Tombs" Sandburg $600 DJ POETS 1992-02-28 #1735
This poet was born in Galesburg, Illinois to a Swedish immigrant whose original name was Danielson (Carl) Sandburg $800 DJ POETRY 1991-04-22 #1541
This Illinois poet's stories for children include "Potato Face" & "Rootabaga Pigeons" Carl Sandburg $800 DJ POETS 1991-02-13 #1493
This Illinois poet wrote what many consider to be the definitive biography of Abraham Lincoln Carl Sandburg $400 DJ POETRY 1990-11-08 #1424
On the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, this Illinois poet addressed a joint session of Congress Carl Sandburg $600 DJ POETS 1990-02-05 #1256
He wrote a biography that won Pulitzer Prize for history in 1940 & won for his poetry in 1951 Carl Sandburg FJ AMERICAN POETS 1989-07-21 #1145
He said of Chicago, "I have seen your painted women... luring the farm boys" Carl Sandburg $400 DJ POETRY 1986-11-20 #509
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