Morri Creech

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Morri Creech (born 1970)[1] is an American poet. He earned a BA at Winthrop University and an MA and MFA at McNeese State University. His collection The Sleep of Reason was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and his collection Field Knowledge (2006) won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize from Waywiser Press. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation,[2] and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.[3] He is the Writer in Residence at Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina.[4]

Bibliography[edit]

Poetry[edit]

Collections
  • Field knowledge. London: The Waywiser Press. 2006.
  • The sleep of reason. London: The Waywiser Press. 2013.
  • The sentence : poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2023.
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
The dead 2023 Creech, Morri (Summer 2023). "The dead". 32 Poems. 41: 10.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Morri Creech". 24 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Morri Creech". waywiser-press.com. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  3. ^ "MFA in Creative Writing Poetry Faculty" (PDF). queens.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  4. ^ "BIO".