Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Hewitt, Geoffrey
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Hewitt, Geoffrey, 1943-
Other form(s) of name
- Geoffrey Hewitt
- Geof Hewitt
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1943-
History
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.)