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Posts tagged Carl Sandburg
Fifth Illinois poet laureate: Angela Jackson
Chicagoan follows in footsteps of Sandburg, Brooks, and Prine
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John Prine: Posthumous Illinois poet laureate
Pritzker forms 13-member search committee to determine next state poet laureate
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Ted CoxJohn Prine, J.B. Pritzker, Illinois Poet Laureate, Roger Ebert, Oh Boy Records, Todd Snider, Old Town School of Folk Music, Willie Dixon, Carl Sandburg, Gwendolyn Brooks, Howard Austin, Kevin Stein, Fiona Whelan Prine, Capitol Fax, Sandra Cisneros, M.K. Pritzker, Shirley Madigan, Nora Brooks Blakely, Susan Dickson, Greg McCormick, Kevin Coval, Kara Jackson
We're No. 3! In masterpieces of U.S. literature
Illinois ranks behind only N.Y., Calif. in recognized award-winning novels, poems — led by Sandburg, Hemingway
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Ted CoxPulitzer Prize, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Literary Hub, Emily Temple, Ernest Hemingway, Carl Sandburg, Archibald MacLeish, Jonathan Franzen, Jennifer Egan
The right side of history: Galesburg
Site of pivotal Lincoln-Douglas debate was also a key stop on the Underground Railroad
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Ted CoxAbraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Slavery, Civil War, Underground Railroad, Knox College, Galesburg, Owen Muelder, S.S. McClure, Edgar Lee Masters, Eugene Field, Don Marquis, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Owen Lovejoy, Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy, Spoon River Anthology, Carl Sandburg, Lombard College
