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Sarah Morgan Bryan was born to a slave-holding family in and lived a somewhat itinerant childhood after the death of her mother.

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt was born in Lexington, Kentucky in August of She was the daughter of Talbot Nelson Bryan and Mary Spiers, who were slaveholders.

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt was an American poet.

A poet widely published in nineteenth-century America, Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt saw hundreds of her verses appear in newspapers and magazines.

But then in , in my second year at Ball State University, I was introduced to little-known poet Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt in an American Literature course.

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt was an American poet..

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

American poet (1836–1919)

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
"A woman of the century"
Born	Sarah Morgan Bryan August 11, 1836 Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.
Died	December 22, 1919(1919-12-22) (aged 83) Caldwell, New Jersey, U.S.
Resting place	Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation	Poet
Language	English
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Henry Female College
Notable works	A Woman's Poems
Partner	John James Piatt (m. 1861; died 1917)
Children	7

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (Sallie M.

Bryan; August 11, 1836 – December 22, 1919) was an American poet. Her career began in the mid-1850s and lasted into the early twentieth century. She published hundreds of poems in nationally circulated newspapers, magazines, and anthologies as well as in eighteen volumes of poems, two of which she co-authored with her husband, the poet John James Piatt (al