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Morri Creech is assistant professor in the Department of Languages at McNeese State University in Louisiana. His poems have been published in the Sewanee Review, the Missouri Review, Crazyhorse, Poetry, the Laurel Review, the Southern Review, the Literary Review, and Critical Quarterly. He has received many honors and prizes, including the 1999 Louisiana Division of the Arts Artist Fellowship, the 1997 Ruth Lilly Fellowship for Young Poets, and a 1998 Pushcart Prize nomination

"Morri Creech uncovers for us the world as unspeakable enigma....Each thing he holds up to the eye is lit from inside with the fire of its own passing away and its own eternity....These poems transform by a deepest magic. I am grateful." - Li-Young Lee, Judge