This poet wrote one obscure play The Flying Islands of the Night, in which he imagines himself as various figures talking to Princess Dwainie, who may represent his real-life love Nellie Cooley.
This poet wrote one obscure play The Flying Islands of the Night, in which he imagines himself as various figures talking to Princess Dwainie, who may represent his real-life love Nellie Cooley. He introduced a popular character in The Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers and published a hoax poem entitled "Leonainie," which he passed off as the work of Edgar Allen Poe, getting himself fired from the Kokomo Dispatch. His other poems include "Lockerbie Street," an homage to the street he lived on for many years, and one in which he tells us that the fodder's in the shock ►and the frost is on the pumpkin. FTP, name this author of the poem "Little Orphant Annie," commonly known as the "Hoosier Poet" for his Indiana dialect.         
This poet wrote one obscure play The Flying Islands of the Night, in which he imagines himself as various figures talking to Princess Dwainie, who may represent his real-life love Nellie Cooley.
James Whitcomb Riley