Constance Carrier (1908–1991) was a teacher and poet. While at Smith College, she discovered Louise Bogan's Body of This Death, which, along with the works of Emily Dickinson, inspired Carrier to become a poet. After graduating from Smith in 1929, Carrier taught Latin, French, and English at public high schools in New Britain and West Hartford, CT, 1930-1970. She completed an M.A. in English at Trinity College in 1940. Carrier’s books of poetry are: The Middle Voice, which won the 1954 Lamont Prize, given by the Academy of American Poets; The Angled Road (1973); and Witchcraft Poems: Salem, 1692 (1988). She also produced translations of the comedies of Terence and the poems of Tibullus, among other works, and had her own work anthologized in American Poetry: The Twentieth Century: e.e. cummings to May Swenson (Penguin, 2000).
Constance Carrier
Studios
Garland
Constance Carrier worked in the Garland studio.
Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…