Morri Creech (born 1970) is an American poet. He earned a BA at Winthrop University and an MA and MFA at McNeese State University. His collection The Sleep of Reason was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and his collection Field Knowledge (2006) won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize from Waywiser Press. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is the Writer in Residence at Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In 2025, Creech's poem An Ordinary Childhood won the Rattle Poetry Prize, winning $15,000.
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Poetry Collections
List of poems TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedThe dead2023 Bedtime metaphysics2023 The marriage2025Wind and sea2025
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