John James Piatt

John James Piatt (March 1, 1835 – February 16, 1917) was an American poet.

Early life and education John James Piatt was born on March 1, 1835, in James' Mills, Dearborn County, Indiana, to Emily (Scott) and John Bear Piatt. The town was later called Milton and relocated to Ohio County, Indiana. He published some poems in the Louisville Journal (later The Courier-Journal) in 1857 and then became an editor of the paper. They lived in Georgetown,

Around 1882, Piatt became a United States consul in Cork, and later in Dublin. He came back to the United States in 1893, settling in North Bend, Ohio. Contemporary reviewers thought his poems were "cheerful, pleasant, and sunny".

He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 16, 1917.

Books Poems of Two Friends, with William Dean Howells (1860) Poems in Sunshine and Firelight (1866) Landmarks (1872) Pencilled Fly-Leaves: A Book of Essays in Town and Country (1880) Idyls and Lyrics of the Ohio Valley (1881) The Children Out-of-Doors, with Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1885) At the Holy Well (1887) A Book of Gold, and Other Sonnets (1889) Little New-World Idyls (1893) Odes in Ohio (1897)