Question: Carver: A Life in Poems is a collection of poems about an American botanist born into slavery in which state?
Context: Sequel to Drum-Taps, subtitled When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and other poems, is a collection of eighteen poems written and published by nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman in 1865.  Most of the poems in the collection reflect on the American Civil War (1861–1865), and the collection includes two elegiac poems, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain!  My Captain! ", written in response to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865.  These poems were later included in "Leaves of Grass", Whitman's comprehensive collection of his poetry that was expanded throughout his life. Edwin P. James (27 August 1797 – 28 October 1861) was a 19th-century American botanist, geographer and geologist who explored the American West.  James completed the first recorded ascent of Pikes Peak.  In addition to his explorations, James was also known for his time spent aiding in creating relationships with the Native Americans as well as helping African Americans to escape slavery.  James was primarily known for his work serving as a botanist and geologist during Thomas Say's expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains and was in charge of charting and taking note of the new discoveries on the journey.  His work on the expedition was similar to that of Alexander Von Humboldt's. Poems on Slavery is a collection of poems by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in support of the United States anti-slavery efforts.  With one exception, the collection of poems were written at sea by Longfellow in October 1842.  The poems were reprinted as anti-slavery tracts two different times during 1843.  Longfellow, very conscious of his public persona, published the poems even though he feared it would hurt him commercially.  At the time of publication reviews were mixed, but more recently critics (now less bothered by what was earlier done away with as mere sentimentality) have begun to appreciate the collection again, for its political message and for its rhetorical strategies. Carver: A Life in Poems is a 1997 collection of poems written by the American poet Marilyn Nelson about George Washington Carver. Subagio Sastrowardoyo (1 February 1924 – 18 July 1995) was an Indonesian poet, short-story writer, essayist and literary critic.  Born in Madiun, East Java, the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), he studied at Gadjah Mada University, Cornell University and in 1963 graduated with an MA from Yale University.  His debut as a writer came early with the publication of "Simphoni" (Symphony), a collection of poems, in 1957.  The collection has been described as "cynical, untamed poetry, shocking sometimes".  "Simphoni" was followed by several attempts at short story writing, including the publication "Kedjananan di Sumbing" (Manhood on Mount Sumbing), before Subagio settled on poetry as his main creative outlet.  Following an extended stay in the United States he published a collection of poems entitled "Saldju" (Snow) in 1966.  The poems in this collection deal with questions of life and death, and of the need for "something to hold on to in an existence threatened on all sides", and have been described as altogether more restrained than those in his earlier work.  Additional works published since 1966 include "Daerab Perbatasan" (Border Region) (1970), "Keroncong Motinggo" (Montinggo's Song) (1975), "Buku Harian" (Diary), "Hari dan Hara" (1979)"Simphoni Dua" (1990), and several books of literary criticism.  Subagio's collected poems have been published as "Dan Kematian Makin Akrab" (1995). Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short, free verse poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town.  The aim of the poems is to demystify the rural, small town American life.  The collection includes two hundred and twelve separate characters, all providing two-hundred forty-four accounts of their lives, losses, and manner of death.  Many of the poems contain cross-references that create an unabashed tapestry of the community.  The poems were originally published in the magazine "Reedy's Mirror". Emily Lovira Gregory (1840–1897) was an American botanist born in Portage, New York.  She began her educational career by receiving her Bachelor's of Arts from Cornell University in 1881, later earning a Ph.D. at the University of Zurich.  This made her one of the first American women to earn a doctoral degree from a university in Europe.  Gregory often found it difficult to find paid academic positions.  She often would take on the unpaid positions because she could support herself.  From 1890 to 1895 at the University of Pennsylvania and Barnard College she worked as a teaching fellow and lecturer respectively.  Gregory was the first woman elected to the American Society of Naturalists in 1886"."  She later died of pneumonia in 1897. Abel Aken Hunter (September 18, 1877 – April 6, 1935) was an American botanist notable for his contributions to science primarily in the collection of the orchids of Panama.  From 1915-1935, he was a team member on scientifically significant orchid hunting expeditions with many of the collectors and researchers of the day: Charles Powell, George Pring, Carroll Dodge, Julian Steyermark, and Paul Allen.  He earned his reputation in field work as an outgrowth of his friendship with Charles Powell.  In a unique period in Panama's history, his first orchid collecting adventure took place with Powell during a fishing trip on the newly man-created Gatun Lake in 1912.  By 1915, both Hunter and Powell were living and working in Balboa, Panama.  As a hobby, Powell started an orchid garden.  Beginning in 1918, the two men would spend leave periods from their employment on extended collecting expeditions: their mission morphing over the years from that of hobby collecting to systematic scientific collecting.  In 1919, Powell submitted their findings for identification to German botanist Rudolf Schlechter who published, in 1922, "Orchidaceae Powellianae Panamenses", a 95-page study of Powell's Panama orchids—Schlechter naming five of the new to science species to honor Hunter. George Washington Carver (1860s – January 5, 1943), was an American botanist and inventor.  The exact day and year of his birth are unknown; he was born into slavery in Missouri, either in 1861, or January 1864. James Solberg Henrickson (b.1940) is an American botanist born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.  He is currently a research fellow at the Plant Resources Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
Answer: Missouri