Author

Morri Creech

Morri Creech is the author of three collections of poetry, the most recent of which, The Sleep of Reason (Waywiser, 2013), was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize. A recipient of NEA and Ruth Lilly Fellowships, as well as grants from the North Carolina and Louisana Arts councils, he is the Writer in Residence at Queens University of Charlotte.

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Poetry

Oct 21 2016

Poetry Feature: Morri Creech

“The tragic undertones that mar our best achievements”
“When you think of the past, what comes to mind is the dead”
“It has been observed before, of course, how oppressive”
“How instructive, the skull placed among the bric-a-brac”
“Or take, for instance, this still life from a Pompeii wall”
“The apples in the basket, the apples of the mind”