Prairie Troubadour Vachel Lindsay traveled miles upon miles trading poems for food and lodging. Edgar Lee Masters revealed the truth and secrets of small town life in his Spoon River Anthology. Gwendolyn Brooks was the poet of the urban experience and gave voice to the disenfranchised, earning acclaim for her textured portraits of life in Bronzeville. LBJ observed that Carl Sandburg “was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America.” Join William Pack as he tells the remarkable stories of four significant Illinois poets and shares some of their finest writing.
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