Constance Carrier

Carrier 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.

After graduating from Smith College in 1929, 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.

Her work was published in the New Yorker,[http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22Constance%20Carrier%22 Newyorker.com] New York Quarterly,[http://www.nyquarterly.org/issues/?id=22 NYquarterly.org] Ploughshares,[http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=241 Pshares.org] Poetry,[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/toc.html?issue=421 Poetryfoundation.org] and Harper's.[http://harpers.org/archive/1939/12/0019896 Harpers.org]

In the 1960s and 1970s, Carrier published translations of the works three classical Roman writers: the playwright Terence, and the poets Propertius and Tibullus.

The anniversary of her 100th birthday was celebrated in New Britain, Connecticut.{{cite news| url=http://blogs.courant.com/itowns_nb/2008/11/constance-carrier-a-local-teac.html| title=Constance Carrier, a Local Teacher and Noted Poet, Will be Honored on Saturday| author=Ken Byron| date=November 21, 2008| work=The Hartford Courant| access-date=May 30, 2009| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119231832/http://blogs.courant.com/itowns_nb/2008/11/constance-carrier-a-local-teac.html| archive-date=January 19, 2013| url-status=dead}}

• The Middle Voice won the 1954 Lamont Prize, given by the Academy of American Poets.
• The Golden Rose Award from the New England Poetry Club{{Cite web |url=http://www.nepoetryclub.org/GoldenRose.htm |title=NEpoetryclub.org |access-date=2009-05-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611190944/http://www.nepoetryclub.org/GoldenRose.htm |archive-date=2009-06-11 |url-status=dead }}

• {{cite book| title=The Middle Voice| year=1954| publisher=A. Swallow| place=Denver| url=https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=2940361 }}
• {{cite book| title=The Angled Road| place=Chicago| publisher=Swallow Press| year=1973| isbn=0-8040-0655-5}}
• {{cite book| title=Witchcraft Poems: Salem, 1692| place=Roslyn, N.Y.| publisher=Stone House Press| year=1988| isbn=0-937035-11-4 }}

• {{cite book| title=The complete comedies of Terence; modern verse translations| others=Palmer Bovie, Constance Carrier, and Douglass Parker| editor=Palmer Bovie| place=New Brunswick, N.J.| publisher=Rutgers University Press| year=1974| isbn=0-8135-0775-8| url=https://archive.org/details/completecomedies00tere}}
• {{cite book| title=Terence, the comedies| others=Palmer Bovie, Constance Carrier, and Douglass Parker| editor=Palmer Bovie| place=Baltimore| publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press| year=1992| isbn=0-8018-4354-5| url=https://archive.org/details/terencecomedies00tere}}
• {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/plautuscomedies0000plau| url-access=registration| title=Plautus | author=Titus Maccius Plautus| editor=David R. Slavitt| editor-link=David R. Slavitt|editor2=Smith Palmer Bovie| chapter=Amphitryon| publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press| year=1995| isbn=978-0-8018-5071-4 }}
• {{cite book| title=The Poems of Tibullus | url=https://archive.org/details/poemsoftibullusw0000tibu | url-access=registration | author=Tibullus| others=Constance Carrier }}
• {{cite book|title=The poems of Propertius | publisher=Bloomington | year=1963| author=Propertius| others=Constance Carrier}}

• {{cite book| title=American Poetry: The Twentieth Century: e.e. cummings to May Swenson| volume=II| url=https://archive.org/details/americanpoetry00newy| editor=Robert Hass| editor2=John Hollander| editor3=Carolyn Kizer| editor4=Marjorie Perloff| editor5=Nathaniel Mackey| publisher=Penguin Group| date=April 2000| isbn=978-1-883011-78-9| url-access=registration}}

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• [https://books.google.com/books?id=N6occeG2y1MC&dq=%22Constance+Carrier%22&pg=PA32 New Britain, Arlene C. Palmer, p.32]
• Constance Carrier [https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/3/resources/1352 Papers] in the Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College Special Collections

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