Constance Merritt is an American poet. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" [1][2][3] Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas in 1966, and educated at the Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock. Pine Bluff is the largest city and County seat of Jefferson County, Arkansas, United States. Little Rock is the Capital and the most populous city of the U 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 a grant from the Rona Jaffe Writers' Foundation and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard is an educational institution in Cambridge Massachusetts, one of the semiautonomous components of Harvard University From 2003 to 2005, Merritt served as the Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence at Sweet Briar College. Sweet Briar College is a liberal arts women's college in Sweet Briar, Virginia, about north of Lynchburg Virginia. Merritt lives in Lynchburg, Virginia. Lynchburg is an Independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Collections of poems
Merritt is the author of two collections of poems: Blessings and Inclemencies (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2007) and A Protocol for Touch (Denton: UNT Press, 2000). The Louisiana State University Press, founded in 1935 is a Nonprofit Book publisher dedicated to the publication of scholarly general interest and regional The University of North Texas Press (or UNT Press) founded in 1987 is a University press that is part of the University of North Texas.