An American lyric poet, Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her first poem was published in editor William Marion Reedy’s “Reedy’s Mirror”, a local newspaper, in 1907. Her first collection of poems, “Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems”, was published that same year. Her second collection, “Helen of Troy and Other Poems”, was published in 1911 to critical acclaim.

From 1904 to 1907, Teasdale was a member of The Potters led by educator Lillie Rose Ernst, a group of female artists in their late teens and early twenties who published, from 1904 to 1907 “The Potter’s Wheel” which was a monthly artistic and literary magazine in St. Louis.