Vachel Lindsay RIP
Seventy seven years ago today Vachel Lindsay, one of my favorite poets, despairing over finances, killed himself.
Lindsay was born into a prosperous family in Springfield, Illinois in 1879. His father, a doctor, pushed Vachel into studying medicine, but the young man was more interested in art. Much to his father’s dismay, Lindsay bolted from medical school and headed to New York to enroll in an art school. While there, he developed an interest in poetry.














