"Chicago"
Poem
By: Carl Sandburg
Date: 1916
Source: Sandburg, Carl. "Chicago." Chicago Poems. New York: Holt, 1916. Reprinted in The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg, rev. and exp. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970, 3–4.
About the Author: Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) was a poet, biographer, journalist, novelist, children's author, and folk musician. He was born in Galesburg, Illinois, to Swedish immigrants. Sandburg left school in the eighth grade, worked odd jobs, traveled by rail, and fought in the Spanish-American War (1898). He eventually returned to Galesburg and enrolled in Lombard College. He never graduated, but he did meet Professor Philip Green Wright, who encouraged him to write poetry. Sandburg held a number of jobs after he left college, including working for the Social Democratic Party and as a journalist for the Chicago Daily News and other...
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