Constance Hunting (1925 – April 5, 2006) was an American poet and publisher, widely known in the

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. She taught English literature and creative writing at the

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at Orono until her death on April 5, 2006. Hunting received her B.A. from

Pembroke College in Brown University Pembroke College in Brown University was the coordinate women's college for Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1891 and merged into Brown in 1971. Founding and early history The founding of the Women's College A ...

in 1947, studied at

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from 1950 to 1953, and then lived in West Lafayette, Indiana, home of

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, until 1968. From that time, she lived in

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, with her husband Robert, who was chair of the English department at UMO until his retirement. Hunting trained as a classical pianist, but is best known for her work as a poet, and her promotion of other Maine writers through the ''Puckerbrush Review'' literary magazine, which she established in 1971. She was also the founder and editor of Puckerbrush Press, which, over the twenty-eight years of its existence, published a great variety of work by many writers, domestic and international, including

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, and other figures from the

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Works

* After the Stravinsky Concert and Other Poems (1969) * Cimmerian and Other Poems (1972) * Beyond the Summerhouse: A Narrative Poem (1976) * Nightwalk and Other Poems (1980) * Dream Cities (1982) * Collected Poems 1969–1982 (1983) * A Day at the Shore: A Poem (1983) * Between the Worlds: Poems 1983–1988 (1989) * Hawkedon (1990) * The Myth of Horizon (1991) * At Rochebonne: A Poem (1994) * The Shape of Memory (1998) * Natural Things: Collected Poems 1969–1998 (1999) * An Amazement (2002) * The Sky Flower (2005) Her papers are currently housed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.

External links

Feature on Hunting
from UMaine Today magazine
Hunting interviewed by Sandy Phippen
on MPBN's "A Good Read" {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunting, Constance 1925 births 2006 deaths Pembroke College in Brown University alumni Brown University alumni Duke University alumni People from Orono, Maine University of Maine faculty Writers from Rhode Island Purdue University faculty People from West Lafayette, Indiana