Accession No. RARE.2020.0035: Karen L. Kilcup, 2020 November
[identification of item], "Recovering Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt" Essay by Paula Bernat Bennett and Karen L. Kilcup, SPEC.RARE.MMS.0354, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University
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Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919) was an American poet born outside Lexington, Kentucky, but spent most of her life in Ohio. Piatt sometimes published poetry under the name "Sallie M. Bryan." Sarah Piatt's earliest poems were published in the
As of 2020, Paula Bernat Bennett is a professor emeritus of English at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Bennett has published numerous books and articles on 19th century American women’s poetry, and is the author of a 2001 selected anthology of Sarah Piatt’s poems,
As of 2020, Karen L. Kilcup is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she has been teaching courses in environmental writing, nineteenth-century women's literature, American poetry, and Native American writing since 1996. In 2015, Kilcup was named the Elizabeth Rosenthal Excellence Professor of English, Environmental & Sustainability Studies, and Women's & Gender Studies.
The Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt Recovery Project was launched in 2019 at Ohio State University by English Professor Elizabeth Renker. The digital humanities project was developed in collaboration with the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, the Ohio State University Knowledge Bank, and graduate students to honor the centennial of Piatt's death. As of 2020, the project encompasses multiple initiatives to collect works by Piatt not currently available elsewhere, and to provide records of the research of scholars working to recover Piatt's poetry.
"Recovering Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt" Essay by Paula Bernat Bennett and Karen L. Kilcup addresses what Bennett and Kilcup learned about Piatt's life and poetry through their research, and gives an overview of Bennett's process of recovering and compiling Piatt's poetry, including obstacles she encountered in trying to introduce Piatt's work to the literary community with her 2001 book,