A previously unpublished poem by the famous playwright Tennessee Williams was discovered last march, by chance, at a bookstore in New Orleans. A dedicated historian by the name of Henry Schvey, who works at Washington University, found the poem at Faulkner House Books while rummaging through the owners private collection of old remnants, postcards, and scraps of papers. Schvey, found the poem in the back of a blue test booklet from a Greek college course Williams was failing in 1937, while attending Washington University, in St. Louis. According to Schvey, while Tennessee was still a young man, he was very dedicated to his poetry, and considered himself primarily a poet, rather than a playwright.Williams wrote the 17-line poem, Titled "Blue Song," which is a reflection of his sentiments during the depression he plummeted into, just before fleeing the city he so greatly despised. At that time Williams was 25 years old, far from home, still an undergraduate, and his first plays had already tasted the bitter flavor of rejection from professors. In the poem Williams writes, "If you should meet me upon a street do not question me for I can tell you only my name and the name of the town I was born in." Soon after writing this poem, Williams left St. Louis, and Washington University, to return home to the familial infighting and dysfunction that helped shape some of his best work. Author A.E. Hotchner, whose play won first prize in the contest that year, studied with Williams at Washington in 1936-37. In an Interview last year, he recalled that the snippets the professor had read of Williams's entry to the contest were by far the best in the class, but were snickered at by his pupils. Hotchner, clearly recalls that when Williams learned he'd lost the contest he stormed out of class and left the college for good. The short play Williams had written while in school would later become one of his masterpieces, The Glass Menagerie. Williams later acknowledged his formative years in St. Louis profoundly shaped his writing. Since the accredited discovery, Professor Schvey has convinced the Big-timers at Washington University to purchase the poem from Faulkner House Books. His future plans are to have the poem published, and to keep it in a permanent display at the school's library.