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John Beecher died of lung disease on May 11, 1980, and was buried in Los Gatos Memorial Park in San Jose, California.
To Live and Die in Dixie is a collection of narrative poems written by social activist and poet John Beecher, a distant descendant of abolitionists Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Despite a high-profile public life of some fifty years as a writer and civil rights activist, few have written about Beecher and few know of his primary vehicle of literary expression: poetry.1 In part, this neglect stems from scholars who have viewed the Beecher family as a nineteenth-century phenomenon, and until recently, have construed the r...
7 lip 2023 · His poems bore titles such as "To Live and Die in Dixie" and "And I Will Be Heard," and his journalism also shared the stories of oppressed people.
John Beecher's first poems, like those of Van Doren, appeared in the year 1924, but Beecher's tradition is that of Sandburg, Lindsay, and the Edgar Lee Masters of Spoon River Anthology. Beecher’s verse is, however, not poetry at all.
Here I Stand: The Life and Legacy of John Beecher. Book. Angela J. Smith. 2017. Published by: The University of Alabama Press. Series: Modern South. View. summary. Biography of a forgotten poet who used his name and influence to speak up for those on the margins of society.
Beecher's books include Report to the Stockholders, To Live and Die in Dixie, In Egypt Land, and a 1974 Macmillian edition of his collected poems
