MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Hewitt, Geoffrey, 1943-
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1968
Volume: 7 item(s); 8 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Hewitt, Geoffrey".
Biography
Geof Hewitt is a poet who, at the time of correspondence with Merton, was 24 and living in Iowa. Having begun writing as a teen, he had by 1968 founded a small specialty press, Kumquat Press. Merton publishes some of Hewitt's poems in the first issue of Monks Pond. Hewitt would publish another of Monks Pond's poets, Alfred Starr Hamilton. He now resides in Vermont and has published books of his poems and books on writing and teaching poetry. (Source: The Road to Joy, p. 362.)
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See also one published letter from Merton to Hewitt in The Road to Joy, pp. 362-363; and see also contributions to Monks Pond, pp. 81-82.
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