Constance Hunting

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

Life
Hunting was born in Rhode Island. She received her B.A. from Brown University in 1947, and studied at Duke University from 1950–1953. She then lived in West Lafayette, Indiana and taught at Purdue University until 1968. From that time, she lived in Orono, Maine with her husband Robert, who was Chair of the English department at the [[University of Maine at Orongo (UMO) until his retirement. She she taught English literature and creative writing at UMO until her death on April 5th, 2006.

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 28 years of its existence, published a great variety of work by many writers, domestic and international, including May Sarton, James Kelman, Angelica Garnett, and other figures from the Bloomsbury Group.

Publications

 * 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)

Fonds
Her papers are currently housed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.