Vachel Lindsay

ABOUT VACHEL LINDSAY

American poet whose works include " Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight" and "The Eagle That is Forgotten." He is regarded as the father of "singing poetry" -- poetry written to be chanted.

After briefly studying medicine at Hiram College, he attended the Art Institute of Chicago.

Both a poet and a musical performance artist, he earned the nickname of "Prairie Troubadour."

He married and had two children with Elizabeth Connor, who was twenty years his junior.

He was a contemporary of William Butler Yeats .