HONOR MOORE
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The Bishop’s Daughter, Honor Moore’s 2008 memoir, was recently released in paperback (May 2009) along with a reissue of her 1996 biography, The White Blackbird, A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter. The Bishop's Daughter was named an Editor's Choice by the New York Times, a "Favorite Book of 2008" by the Los Angeles Times and was chosen by the National Book Critics Circle as part of their "Good Reads" recommended reading list. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In April 2009, Library of America published Poems from the Women's Movement, an anthology edited by Honor Moore.
She is the author of three collections of poems: Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir, and her play Mourning Pictures, was produced on Broadway and published in The New Women’s Theatre: Ten Plays by Contemporary American Women, which she edited.
Moore has received awards in poetry and playwriting from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission for the Arts and in 2004 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in non-fiction.
In addition to Poems from the Women's Movement, she is the editor of Amy Lowell: Selected Poems for the Library of America and co-editor of The Stray Dog Cabaret, A Book of Russian Poems translated by Paul Schmidt and teaches in the graduate writing programs at the New School. From 2005 to 2007, she was an off-Broadway theatre critic for The New York Times.
Honor Moore's papers are held at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
BOOKS
The White Blackbird, a Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter (biography), W. W. Norton, May 2009, republished in paperback
The Bishop’s Daughter (memoir), W. W. Norton, May 2008; paperback, May 2009.
Red Shoes (poems), W. W. Norton, June 2005, paperback January 2007.
Darling (poems), Grove Atlantic, September, 2001— Finalist James Laughlin Award.
The White Blackbird, a Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter (biography), Viking, March 1996, paperback Penguin, July 1997 A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Memoir (poems), Chicory Blue Press, 1988.
EDITIONS
Poems from the Women’s Movement, selected and with an introduction by Honor Moore, the Library of America, April 2009.
The Stray Dog Cabaret, A Book of Russian Poems translated by Paul Schmidt, co-edited by Honor Moore and Catherine Ciepiela with an afterword by Honor Moore NYRB Classics, December 2006
Amy Lowell: Selected Poems, selected and with an introduction by Honor Moore, American Poetry Project: The Library of America, October 2004.
The New Women’s Theatre: Ten Plays by Contemporary American Women, Selected and with an introduction by Honor Moore, Vintage, 1977
AWARDS
2005: Fellowship at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center at Bellagio
2004: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in General Non-Fiction
2003-2008: MacDowell Colony Fellowship; The Corporation of Yaddo Fellowship, residency at UCross, the artists' colony in Wyoming.
2002: Finalist, James Laughlin Award and; Connecticut Book Award for Darling
2000: Humanities Laureate, St. Joseph’s College, Hartford
1997: Finalist Lambda Literary Award and The Judy Grahn Award for The White Blackbird
1992: Connecticut Commission on the Arts Artist's Grant in Poetry
1981: National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry
1975: New York State Council on the Arts Creative Artists Public Service grant in Playwriting
PUBLICATIONS/POETRY
Play in Verse Mourning Pictures, in The New Women’s Theatre Vintage 1977; See below for productions.
Journals/Magazines since 1992
2005: Boston Review (spring: "Disparu"; "Corridor")
2005: Salmagundi (fall: "Gnostic", "Violetta, 2000"; spring: "Wallace Stevens")
2004: Bomb ("Portrait", "Styria", "Pilgrimage"); Bloom ("Music")
2003: Conjunctions: Two Kingdoms ("The Pink Dress", prose poem, fall 2003)
2001: Salmagundi (2 poems,); Open City (2 poems)
2000: Conjunctions: American Poetry: States of the Art (5 poems) , Seneca Review xxx, no.1 “Shoulder”); Paris Review 154 (“In the Dark)
1999: Paris Review 149; Kunapipi (UK)
1998: Slate; Seneca Review
1997: Tikkun
1994: American Poetry Review; Caprice
1993: American Voice; Paris Review; B City
1992: Ploughshares; So to Speak; Hellas
Anthologies since 1984
Best American Erotic Poetry: 1800-the present edited by David Lehman, forthcoming, 2008, Scribner
Love Speaks Its Name edited by JD McClatchy (Everyman Editions; Knopf, 2001)
KGB Book of Poems edited by David Lehman (Harcourt, 2000)
The World in Us edited by Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou, (St Martins, New York, 2000)
Sappho Through English Poetry edited Peter Jay / Caroline Lewis, (Anvil Press Poetry, London, 1998)
Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age edited by John Bradley, (Coffee House,1995)
Unleashed, Poems by Writers’ Dogs edited by Amy Hempel and Jim Shepard (Crown)
The Key to Everything edited by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, (St.Martin's Press, 1995)
A Formal Feeling Comes: Formalism in Contemporary Women's Poetry edited by Annie Finch, (Storyline Press, 1994)
Tangled Vines, Mother and Daughter Poems edited Lyn Lifshin, (2nd edition, Harcourt, Brace, 1992)
A Gathering of Poets edited by Maggie Anderson/Alex Gildzen, (The Kent State University Press, 1992)
Lovers: Stories by Women, edited by Amber Coverdale Sumrall, (Crossing Press, 1992)
Out of This World: the Poetry Project at the St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery,An Anthology 1966-1991; edited by Anne Waldman, foreword by Allen Ginsberg, (Crown 1991)
Poets for Life, 46 Poets Respond to AIDS edited by Michael Klein. With Creeley, Rich, Levine, Valentine (Crown, 1989; Persea paper, 1992)
Naming the Waves edited by Christian McEwan. (Virago 1988 [Britain]; Crossing Press [US], 1990)
Writing in a Nuclear Age edited by James Schley, Univ.Press of New England, 1984,
Recordings1984: Take Hands, Singing and Speaking for Survival with Susan Griffin, Margie Adam, Janet Marlow; Spuyten Duyvil cassette recording, Watershed Foundation, broadcast on NPR stations
1978: A Sign I Was Not Alone with Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde and Joan Larkin), LP, Out and Out Books/Records
1978: First Time: 1950 Black Box, Watershed Foundation Audio
Film
Girlfriends directed by Claudia Weill, Warner Brothers, 1978 (protagonist, a poet, recites poem, "I Have A War With My Mother...")
Excerpts of Mourning Pictures in Once a Daughter, a film by Lyn Littman, PBS Stations, 1979.
PUBLICATIONS/PROSE since 1984
Introductions
Amy Lowell Selected Poems American Poetry Project, Library of America, October 2004
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood, New York Review Books, September 2002.
Journals/Magazines/Newspapers
2009: Boston Review (March/April: "After Ariel" excerpt of introduction of Poems from the Women's Movement.
2008: The New Yorker (March 5) "The Bishop's Daughter," book excerpt.
off-Broadway Theatre Reviews, The New York Times, May, 2005- 2007.
“Amy Lowell” (essay/introduction) Harvard Review, Fall 2004.
“Sister Cordelia” Lincoln Center Review, Winter, 2004.
“My Robert Lowell” (essay), Salmagundi, Fall 2003
“Letter from London” (re: Anglican Primates conference on election of Gene V. Robinson Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire – the first openly gay bishop of the Episcopal Church), The Nation, October 24, 2004.
“My Father’s Ship” (journal/essay), The American Scholar, Fall 2003 (1st runner-up for best essay published in The American Scholar in 2003)
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood, introduction, The Guardian (London) 2002
“Poetry Speaks” ed. Elise Paschen et al. (review), Wilson Quarterly, Winter 2002
“A Poem of One’s Own” O: The Oprah Magazine, November 2001 (finalist, National Magazine Awards)
“Redeemed by Effort”, Writers on Writing, The New York Times, 10 September 2001.
The Glass Palace by, Amitav Ghosh (review), Bookforum, Winter, 2001
Jersey Rain by Robert Pinsky, (review) EdificeRex.com, April 2000
"The Visit, a memoir of the Living Theatre at Yale". Theater, Fall/Winter 1998
"Mazurka" (lyric essay), Seneca Review, Spring 1998
"A Heart Not Mended" (Claire Tomalin’s Jane Austen) The New Leader, February 9, 1998
"A House, Too, Can Be a Lifelong Companion", Home Section, The New York Times, April 18, 1996; Redbook, September 1996; Radcliffe Quarterly, Spring 1998.
Excerpt from The White Blackbird, Radcliffe Quarterly, Summer 1996 (cover)
"Grandmother, the Empress", The New Yorker, March 25, 1996
"The Story Next Door" Lincoln Center Theatre Review, Winter 1996, Radcliffe Quarterly 2000
"Arthur Miller's Place" (profile; cover), Northeast Magazine, The Hartford Courant, December 4, 1994
"The Crimson Snake" (memoir-essay), Agni Review, Fall, 1994
The Art Lover by Carole Maso (review), Boston Review, August, 1990, Volume XV, Number 4
"The City Versus the Country: The Country Wins," New York Times; Connecticut Weekly, November 2, 1986
"The Responsibility of the Poet in a Nuclear Age," Poets and Writers (Coda), June/July, 1985
Anthologies
“Redeemed by Effort” Writers on Writing, (from The New York Times) Holt 2003
"Houseful", Open House: Writers on Home, edited by Mark Doty, Gray Wolf, 2003
"12 Years and Counting: Writing Biography" Creating NonFiction edited by Carolyn Forché and Philip Gerard, Story Press, 2001
Excerpt from The White Blackbird, Girls: An Anthology, ed. Edith Chevat et al. (Global City), 1996
"My Grandmother Who Painted", Perspectives: Turning Reading into Writing, edited by Joseph Comprone, (Houghton Mifflin), 1987
"Woman Alone, Women Together," Women in American Theatre, edited by Helen Crich Chinoy and Linda Jenkins {Crown, 1981; Theatre Communications Group (revised and expanded edition, 1987)
"My Grandmother Who Painted," The Writer On Her Work: Contemporary Women Writers Reflect on their Art and Situation (vol. I), edited by Janet Sternburg. With Mary Gordon, Maxine Hong Kingston, Alice Walker. (W.W. Norton, 1980; reissued: 1993, 2000)
PLAY
Mourning Pictures (in verse); produced by Lyn Austin and Mary Silverman, Music Theatre Gp, Lenox, Mass., July 1974; Jujamacyn Theatres at the Lyceum Theatre, Broadway, November, 1974,Famous Door Theatre, Chicago, 1996
The Monstrous Regiment, tour of Great Britain, Tricycle Theatre, London 1981; Broadcast on BBC, Radio IV
Excerpts in Once a Daughter, a film by Lyn Littman, PBS Stations, 1979;
Cricket Theatre, Minneapolis, 1978, Eureka Theatre, San Francisco, 1978;
Goodman Theatre, Chicago, 1977 (Staged reading);
Published in The New Women's Theatre
TEACHING
Universities
Bedell Visiting Distinguished Writer in Creative Non-Fiction, University of Iowa, Spring 2010
The New School, graduate writing program, Creative Non-Fiction, 1999 – present
Columbia University, School of the Arts Graduate Writing Program: Adjunct Professor in Creative Non-Fiction, 2001-present
New York State Summer Writer’s Institute, Skidmore, manuscript consultant in poetry and creative non-fiction, 2001-present
Columbia University, Master Class in Creative Non-Fiction, Spring 2001
Wesleyan University Poet in Residence, Instructor “Writing Verse” poetry seminar, Spring 200
Wesleyan Writers Conference, Poetry, Summer 1999-present
The New School Visiting Instructor in Creative Non-Fiction, MFA Program, Winter 1999
The Bennington Workshops Visiting Lecturer in Creative Non-Fiction, Winter, 1999
University of Iowa Visiting Distinguished Writer in Creative Non-Fiction, Spring term, 1997
James Madison UniversityVisiting Scholar in Poetry and Drama, 1980
Workshops since 1992
Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, 2008
Wesleyan Writers Conference, 2008
Poetry, St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, 2002
Creative Non-Fiction, George Mason University, 2002
Aran Islands International Poetry Festival, Poet/Teacher, August, 1997
Ireland Summer Writers’ Workshops
Manhattanville College Poet in Residence, June, 1997
Writing workshops for teachers in Hartford schools, sponsored by the Young Writers Institute, 1994-1995
Private workshops in Kent, Ct. in poetry and prose, 1993-1996
Residency in Poetry, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 1992
Seminar: 12 week course in the history and thinking of feminism; taught with Francine DuPlessix Gray, Washington, Ct., September, 1992 - March, 1993.
OTHER EMPLOYMENT/SERVICE
Cathedral of St. John the Divine Elector, Poets Corner, 2000-
Selection Panel for grant to writers; served anonymously, 1988, 1997, 1999, 2001
National Book Award in Non-Fiction Judge, 1998
PEN/Gerard Award in Non-Fiction Judge, 1997
Co-curator, "Margarett Sargent: A Modern Temperament" (American Artist, 1892-1978), traveling exhibition originating at the Wellesley College Art Museum, March, 1996: Berry-Hill Galleries, New York City, September, 1996
Co-founder and steering committee, Women Writing Women’s Lives, Seminar, The Humanities Center, NYU; the Graduate Center, CUNY. 1992-1996; membership continues
PEN/Revson Foundation Fellowship in Poetry Judge, 1991 "The Voice of the Poet," producer/coordinator. American poets reading their short poems for NPR. Co-funded by National Endowment for the Arts, NPR, Poets & Writers, Inc., 1974
BOARDS OF DIRECTORS AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
PEN American Center (2000- 2006, Treasurer, 2003-2005)
Jenny McKean Moore Fund for Writers (1977-1998); Music Theatre Group (1976-1992)
Poets and Writers, Inc. (1974-1993); Feminist Art Institute (1981- 1990)
Chrysalis: A Magazine of Women's Culture (Contributing Editor, 1977-80)
Manhattan Theatre Club (1972-1976)
Author’s Guild: member since 19978
"Women Writing Women's Lives" seminar, New York Institute for the Humanities. 1991-1994 Steering Committee and founding member
University Seminar on Women and Society, Columbia University (founding member)
EDUCATIONYale School of Drama, MFA Program, 1967-1969
Radcliffe College, Harvard University, BA cum laude, 1967
Shortridge High School, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1959-63,
American Field Service Summer Exchange Student to Lahore, Pakistan, 1962