Constance Merritt is an American poet.[1][2][3] Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas in 1966, and educated at the Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock. She is also the winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry and a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Book Award.[4] In 2001, Merritt received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. From 2003 to 2005, Merritt served as the Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence at Sweet Briar College. Merritt lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
Collections of poems
Merritt is the author of four collections of poems: Blind Girl Grunt: The Selected Blues Lyrics and Other Poems (Sequim, WA, Headmistress Press, 2017),Two Rooms (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2009), Blessings and Inclemencies (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2007) and A Protocol for Touch (Denton: UNT Press, 2000).
- Two Rooms: Poems:Louisiana State University Press, 2009
References
- ^ 2001-2002 Radcliffe Institute Fellows: Constance Merritt Archived 2007-12-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Poetry Center at Smith College". Archived from the original on 2013-04-26. Retrieved 2007-11-27.
- ^ Dwelling: Poem by Constance Merrit: Ragged Edge magazine 2001 Issue 1
- ^ NCW-Constance Merritt Archived 2012-07-10 at Archive.today