 The work premiered in 2000 and was made into a video premiering in 2002.“Prairie” appears in Carl Sandburg’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of 103 poems, "Cornhuskers", published in 1918.Opening with "“I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of its women, gave me a song and a slogan,”" the narrator offers a vivid description of the prairie land with its lively stories.