Constance Carrier

Constance Virginia Carrier (July 29, 1908 – December 7, 1991) was an American teacher, translator, and poet, based in Connecticut.

Early life and education Carrier was born in New Britain, Connecticut, the daughter of Lucius Alonso Carrier and Lillian M. Jost Carrier. Her father was on the staff at Trinity College in Hartford. She was descended from Martha Carrier, one of the women hanged during the notorious Salem witch trials of 1692. The witch trials were the subject of Carrier's last volume of poetry. She graduated from Smith College in 1929. As a student at Smith, she was inspired to become a poet by reading Louise Bogan and Emily Dickinson. She earned a master's degree at Trinity College in 1940.

Career Carrier taught at New Britain High School, and then five years at Hall High School in West Hartford, before retiring in 1969. She taught several subjects, but is most remembered for teaching Latin.

Carrier's poetry was published in the New Yorker, New York Quarterly, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Harper's. The Middle Voice won the 1954 Lamont Prize, given by the Academy of American Poets. Her papers are in the Mortimer Rare Book Collection of Smith College.

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