'Waking in the Blue' is a poem by Robert Lowell that was published in his book "Life Studies" and is a striking, early example of confessional poetry.
 Of the handful of poems from "Life Studies" in which Lowell explored his struggles with mental illness, this poem was one of Lowell's most forthwright admissions that he was mentally ill.
 Though he doesn't discuss the exact nature of his mental illness in the poem, he does describe his hospitalization in a mental institution.
 Lowell's admission of having spent time in a mental institution was considered a brave one to make when he published the poem in 1959, when public disclosure about mental illness was a serious social taboo.
Trevor Winkfield (born 1944) is a British-born artist and writer.
 Drawing upon his interest in both modernist literary movements and medieval architecture and pageantry, Winkfield has collaborated with many contemporary poets and writers, including John Ashbery, Harry Mathews, James Schuyler, and Ron Padgett.
Charles North (born June 9, 1941) is an American poet, essayist and teacher.
 Described by the poet James Schuyler as “the most stimulating poet of his generation,” he has received two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, an Individual Artist’s Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, four Fund for Poetry awards, and a Poets Foundation award.
Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV ( ; March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet.
 He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the "Mayflower".
 His family, past and present, were important subjects in his poetry.
 Growing up in Boston also informed his poems, which were frequently set in Boston and the New England region.
 The literary scholar Paula Hayes believes that Lowell mythologized New England, particularly in his early work.
James Marcus Schuyler (November 9, 1923 – April 12, 1991) was an American poet.
 His awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1980 collection "The Morning of the Poem".
 He was a central figure in the New York School and is often associated with fellow New York School poets John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and Barbara Guest.
Life Studies is the fourth book of poems by Robert Lowell.
 Most critics (including Helen Vendler, Steven Gould Axelrod, Adam Kirsch, and others) consider it one of Lowell's most important books, and the Academy of American Poets named it one of their "Groundbreaking Books."
 Helen Vendler called "Life Studies" Lowell's "most original book."
Pierre Martory (December 1, 1920 – October 5, 1998) was a French poet whose influence on New York School poets was quiet but profound.
 His work was admired by Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, Harry Mathews, and others, and translated extensively by John Ashbery, with whom he shared his life in Paris for nearly a decade.
 His work has appeared in many books in both England and the United States, as well as in "The New Yorker" and "Poetry".
 Martory’s personal “charm,” the poet Ann Lauterbach once said, “devolved back to the original meaning of ‘spell.
’” However, as Ashbery has noted, “Both the humor and the sadness in his poems are always rendered with an unemphatic clarity that is certainly Mozartian.”
Locus Solus was an American journal of experimental poetry and prose that published four issues in 1961 and 1962, one a double issue.
 The magazine was edited by the poets John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler, all of whom contributed to its four issues.
 The content was completely in English but the journal was published in France (in Lans-en-Vercors) by Harry Mathews.
Darragh Park (July 24, 1939 – April 17, 2009) was an American Artist, and the literary executor of the estate of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet James Schuyler.
 Perhaps best known for his book cover illustrations, Park painted landscapes as well as cityscapes in the style of Fairfield Porter.
 He was based in Bridgehampton, NY and his works were on exhibit at the Parrish Art Museum.
 and at the Guild Hall in East Hampton.
Lord Weary's Castle, Robert Lowell's second book of poetry, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947 when Lowell was only thirty.
 Robert Giroux, who was the publisher of Lowell's wife at the time, Jean Stafford, also became Lowell's publisher after he saw the manuscript for "Lord Weary's Castle" and was very impressed; he later stated that "Lord Weary's Castle" was the most successful book of poems that he ever published.

Question: Who was born first, James Schuyler or Robert Lowell?
Answer: Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV