Monthly Archives: October 2015

More Great Plains Poetry

The American poet, Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) was something of a mystic, and he once walked from his home in Illinois all the way to New Mexico preaching “the gospel of beauty.”  Why is it not surprising then that he spent … Continue reading

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Texting Meriwether Lewis

This may not be the best spelled quote, but cut him some slack.  He was writing in the days before “autocorrect.”  How did he possibly manage?  I shudder to think.   😉 (Actually, it was pretty difficult to even transcribe … Continue reading

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