A Life in Poetry (1919 – 1972)
About Jane
Jane Merchant was an American poet. She was born in Inskip, Tennessee in 1919, now a neighborhood in Knoxville. As part of a larger effort to bring new light to the work of this inspiring American poet, her family has organized and founded the Jane Merchant Project.
Since most of her work is out-of-print and inaccessible, we have launched this website with the intent of republishing and archiving many of her greatest and most memorable poems, while also telling the story of how she overcame the overwhelming odds of Osteogenesis imperfecta (or Brittle Bone Disease) to achieve success in her work and live a rich and fulfilling life.
