Morri Creech

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

Poetry

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

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".