Posts Tagged ‘Harriet Monroe’
A Christmas Poem By Carl Sandburg: “Star Silver”
It’s been a long time since I’ve featured a poem here on buckeyemuse.com. I’m working on a series of posts about Sherwood Anderson in Elyria that began a couple of years ago along with some other material, but I’ve been wanting to do some shorter posts. Something I did occasionally in the early days of…
Read MoreBorn on January 6: Wright Morris and Carl Sandburg
Two important writers from the Midwest were born on January 6: Carl Sandburg in 1878 and Wright Morris in 1910. Since Morris is the lesser known of the two, I will start with him. Wright Morris was born in Central City, Nebraska. His mother died within a week of his birth. His father was a…
Read MorePublished A Century Ago: Vachel Lindsay’s “The Congo and Other Poems.”
It was 100 years ago that Midwestern poet Vachel Lindsay achieved prominence with his collection The Congo and Other Poems. Lindsay, born in Springfield, Illinois in 1879, had published a volume in 1913 called General William Booth Enters Into Heaven and Other Poems that garnered attention along with his dramatic public recitations. The Congo and…
Read MoreHappy Birthday to Harriet Monroe, founder of “Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.”
Harriet Monroe, who founded Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, was born in Chicago on December 23, 1860. She was determined to make her mark in the literary world, and founded Poetry in her native city–which she hoped to establish as an important literary center– in 1912. She wanted the journal to “open its pages to…
Read MoreRemembering Vachel Lindsay
The Midwestern poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was born on November 10, 1879. He is best known today—and was in his own time–for his poetry, but also wrote film criticism and essays. He was a visual artist as well. Lindsay was born in Springfield, Illinois, the home of Abe Lincoln, and the image and memory of…
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