Constance Hunting the poet and publisher, was widely known in the Northeastern United States, particularly in her home state of Rhode Island, her adopted state of Indiana, and later in Maine where she taught English literature and creative writing at the University of Maine

University of Maine

The University of Maine is a public research university located in Orono, Maine, United States. The university was established in 1865 as a land grant college and is referred to as the flagship university of the University of Maine System...

 at Orono until her death on April 5th, 2006.

Hunting received her B.A. from Brown University

Brown University

Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

 in 1947, studied at Duke University

Duke University

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

 from 1950-1953, and then lived in West Lafayette, IN, home of Purdue University

Purdue University

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

, until 1968. From that time, she lived in Orono, Maine

Orono, Maine

Orono is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. It was first settled in 1774 and named in honor of Chief Joseph Orono of the Penobscot Nation. It is home to The University of Maine. The population was 10,362 at the 2010 census.- Geography :...

 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 May Sarton

May Sarton

May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton , an American poet, novelist, and memoirist.-Biography:...

, James Kelman

James Kelman

James Kelman is an influential writer of novels, short stories, plays and political essays. His novel A Disaffection was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1989...

, Angelica Garnett

Angelica Garnett

Angelica Vanessa Garnett is a British writer and painter.-Early life:She was the illegitimate daughter of the painters Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, sister of Virginia Woolf, and was a member of the Bloomsbury Group...

, and other figures from the Bloomsbury Group

Bloomsbury Group

The Bloomsbury Group or Bloomsbury Set was a group of writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists who held informal discussions in Bloomsbury throughout the 20th century. This English collective of friends and relatives lived, worked or studied near Bloomsbury in London during the first half...

. Here is a partial list of Puckerbrush Press authors: Michael Alpert, Virgil Bisset, Farnham Blair, James Boswell, Tony Brinkley, Rebecca Cummings, Martha Todd Dudman, Christopher Fahy, Angelica Garnett, Maxim Gorky, Chenoweth Hall, Sonya Hess, Merle Hillman, Mary Gray Hughes, Kathleen Kranidas, Michael McMahon, Muska Nagel, Thelma Nason, Deborah Pease, Sanford Phippen, Pat Ranzoni, Harvena Richter, Mark Rutter, Vita Sackville-West, Lee Sharkey, Margaret Shipley, Mrs. Leslie Stephen, Robert Taylor, Paul Weinman, and Douglas Young.

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"