As the Sandburg goat herd increased, she also designed the barn alterations to accommodate them.

Sandburg also wrote Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, a two-volume biography in 1926, The American Songbag ( 1927 ), and a book of poems called Good Morning, America ( 1928 ) in Elmhurst.

He also hosted a radio show, Your Ballad Man, in 1949 that was broadcast nationwide on the Mutual Radio Network and featured a highly eclectic program, from gamelan music, to Django Reinhardt, to Klezmer music, to Sidney Bechet and Wild Bill Davison, to jazzy pop songs by Maxine Sullivan and Jo Stafford, to readings of the poetry of Carl Sandburg, to hillbilly music with electric guitars, to Finnish brass bands – to name a few.

( 1923 – 1924 ) The Chicago literary group also included Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, Edgar Lee Masters, Witter Bynner, Arthur Davison Ficke, Floyd Dell, Vachel Lindsay and Sherwood Anderson.

A poem by Bodenheim featured in the 1917 Others: An Anthology of the New Verse, which also included poems by such future luminaries as T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Carl Sandburg, and William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens ' " Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird ".

It was also during his administration that he employed the noted American poet and author Carl Sandburg for a brief time.

Contributors also included Pound, Eliot, H. D., Djuna Barnes, Amy Lowell, Conrad Aiken, Carl Sandburg and Wallace Stevens.

Mark Twain, E. Lynn Harris, Zane Grey, Upton Sinclair, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Bernard Shaw, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Anaïs Nin also self-published some or all of their works.

" He also won American Platform Association's Carl Sandburg Award in 1980.

He also tours with a show titled, Sandburg to Smith-Smith to Sandburg, which combines the work of both poets with live jazz.

A group of American archivists and researchers that included John A. Lomax, his son Alan Lomax, poet Carl Sandburg, musician and activist Pete Seeger and others collected, recorded, and published old ballads, prison songs, Appalachian folk music and black blues.

Many of these poems, including the ' Sandburg ' series, are collected in the as-yet unpublished DogStar volume.

He edited, among other anthologies, Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems, for the American Poets Project of the Library of America.

Sandburg wrote three children's books in Elmhurst, Rootabaga Stories, in 1922, followed by Rootabaga Pigeons ( 1923 ), and Potato Face ( 1930 ).

His books include three collections of essays from the Israelite and a biography of his friend, poet Carl Sandburg.

By 1965, Rayner's clown character, along with " Sandy ", played by Don Sandburg, were added to Larry Harmon's Bozo coloring books.

Before creating the album, Stevens read literature by Illinois authors Saul Bellow and Carl Sandburg, and studied immigration records and history books for the state — he made the deliberate decision to avoid current events and focused on historical themes.

Most rooms, including the study at the Sandburg home abound with books and periodicals.

Often these listeners would refer Sandburg to persons who had similar ballads or ditties.

As Sandburg said at the time: `` It is as ancient as the medieval European ballads brought to the Appalachian Mountains, it is as modern as skyscrapers, the Volstead Act, and the latest oil well gusher ''.

Among the songs included were " Jesse James ", " The Old Chisholm Trail ", " Sweet Betsy From Pike ", and " The Buffalo Skinners " ( which George Lyman Kittredge considered " one of the greatest western ballads " and which was praised for its Homeric quality by Carl Sandburg and Virgil Thomson.

The songs Sandburg sang often reminded listeners of songs of a kindred character they knew entirely or in fragments.

In due time Sandburg was a walking thesaurus of American folk music.

After he had finished the first two volumes of his Lincoln, Sandburg went to work assembling a book of songs out of hobo and childhood days and from the memory of songs others had taught him.

Sandburg is in constant demand as an entertainer.

It is a mistake, however, to imagine that Sandburg uses the guitar as a prop.

I am certain that Carl Sandburg will not fall into the same sad philosophy.

The public's identification of Carl Sandburg and the guitar is no happenstance.

`` He wanted Mr. Sandburg to pose with one of the guitars he had displayed behind glass in the center of his shop, but the poet eyed this somewhat distastefully.

While the picture was taken, Mr. Miller's disposition to be generous to Mr. Sandburg increased to the point where he advised, ' I won't even charge you the one dollar rental fee ' ''.

Lloyd Lewis wrote that when he first knew Carl in 1916, Sandburg was making $27.50 a week writing features for the Day Book and eating sparse luncheons in one-arm restaurants.

When fame came it changed Sandburg only slightly.

Through all these years, Mrs. Sandburg has pointedly avoided the limelight.

Mrs. Sandburg received a Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of Chicago and she was busy writing and teaching when she met Sandburg.

The only way to describe Paula Sandburg is to say she is beautiful in a Grecian sense.

When erosion threatened the foundation of their home in Harbert, Paula Sandburg planted grapevines and arranged the snow fences which helped hold the sands away.

Carl was still Charles A. Sandburg.

These sages include poet Carl Sandburg, statesman Jawaharlal Nehru and sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, in Volume One, and playwright Sean O'Casey, David Ben-Gurion, philosopher Bertrand Russell and the late Frank Lloyd Wright in the second set.

Contributors have included Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes and Carl Sandburg, among others.

Carl Sandburg often traveled the USA as a writer and a poet.

" In his collections of folk songs, Sandburg added a class dynamic to popular understandings of American folk music.

He was personal friends with such literary figures as T. S. Eliot and Carl Sandburg.