Hubert Creekmore (16 January 1907 – 23 May 1966) was an American poet and writer from the small Mississippi town of Water Valley.
The program also encouraged writers to compile local literature and folklore, much like the Brothers Grimm had done in Germany almost a century before.
Creekmore, Eudora, and a few of their close friends formed a small club whose entire purpose was to sit up at night, watching the cereus flower bloom, meanwhile discussing the literary arts.
Most homosexual men in the South chose to marry and keep their sexual preference hidden from the world so that they would not be ostracized by the public.
In Fingers, Creekmore writes of a southern girl who is dealing with the problems caused by intense religious fervor.
His most famous translations include the Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, the Erotic Elegies of Albius Tibullus, and Lyrics of the Middle Ages.
Having few relatives, no children and having lived in New York for so long, his works are scarcely known, even in his native state of Mississippi.