Manhattan has its Meatpacking District, although now “Meat Market District” is perhaps a more appropriate name. While Brooklyn has neither a poetic allegory nor a similar neighborhood moniker, it does have plenty of recession-friendly choices to sate...

A prolific non-fiction author and poet, Sandburg wrote volumes upon volumes chronicling the childhood and the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln — a fellow man of the Midwest—fascinated him, and Sandburg’s fascination spawned one of his most...

At its meeting Wednesday, the Charleston school board approved Poffinbarger's resignation as Jefferson principal and agreed to her request to return to teaching. The board also approved her assignment to a third-grade teaching position at Carl Sandburg...

What is FOG? And just how did FOG end up in a poem? Carl Sandburg makes FOG come alive for us in the image of a cat. Come along and see how: The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. ...

It was reproduced in The Chicago Tribune and National Geographic, and versions of it still illustrate at least two biographies, including the latest paperback edition of Carl Sandburg's 1932 "Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow." In reality, the painting...

It was reproduced in The Chicago Tribune and National Geographic, and versions of it still illustrate at least two biographies, including the latest paperback edition of Carl Sandburg's 1932 "Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow." In reality, the painting...