Although known primarily as a visual artist, Indiana is also the author of numerous poems. He began writing poetry as a student at Arsenal Technical High School, where some of his poems were published in the school newspaper, The Arsenal Cannon. Jim Riley’s Dead…, one of his published works, is an ode to the Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916), known as the “Hoosier Poet” and “Children’s Poet.”
