Vachel

During dinner, Allie said "My cousin Vachel is coming out for a visit in a couple of weeks."

MORE FROM GINNY BATES: SO LOVELY, WOMEN TOGETHER Maggie Jochild 2007

It was another Vachel Lindsay poem, which began “Darius the Mede was a king and a wonder …” This became “Darius the Mede had a kink and no wonder …” At the time we thought this was hugely funny!

L is for Lockstep « An A-Z of ELT 2010

In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.

marcia lee masters | the man, my father « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

She rushed downstairs and there was Vachel staggering up from the basement, going erp orp erp.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

Sara Teasdale was a much better poet than Vachel Lindsay was, and he recognized that, and he fell in love with her and chanted his poems to her and beat his drum for her, and later he dedicated a book to her.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

This peom's finished, I presume. with due credit and/or apologies to John MacRae, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, and Henry Stanley

DIVERSIONS FROM OUR READERS Maggie Jochild 2007

In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.

edgar lee masters | happy birthday mr. spoon river « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007

People like Ezra Pound—who was even crazier than Vachel Lindsay was, and who also, by the way, beat a drum sometimes when he gave readings—were laughing at him.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

And when Vachel Lindsay died Sara Teasdale was heartsick, and she drugged herself one night in the bathtub.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

After drinking poison, Vachel Lindsay staggered up the basement stairs.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009