Curriculum Vitae
BOOKS
Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury (memoir/biography): WW Norton, March 2020
Memoir, poems 1988; reissued; Classic Collection series; Carnegie Mellon Press, October 2019
Writing the Women’s Movement: American Feminism 1962-1992; Library of America 2020
The Bishop’s Daughter (memoir), WW Norton, May 2008, paper May 2009, Editors Choice NY Times, LA Times Favorite Book of the Year, Good Reads Selection NBCC, Finalist National Book Critics Circle, Short List Lamda Book Award, New Yorker excerpt.
Red Shoes (poems) WW Norton, June 2005, paper 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, Viking, March 1996; paperback Penguin, July 1997, paperback WW Norton, April 2009 A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Memoir (poems), Chicory Blue Press, 1988, reissued Carnegie Mellon “Classic Collection” 2019
AS EDITOR
Chief consultant: A Change of World, Podcast Series and one NPR special broadcast produced by The Poetry Foundation, March 2018
Poems from the Women’s Movement, Library of America (April, 2009)< Oprah Summer Reads Pick. The Stray Dog Cabaret, A Book of Russian Poems, translated by Paul Schmidt, co-edited with Catherine Ciepiela and wrote Afterword., (NY Review Books, 2007), Runner-up PEN Translation Award,Amy Lowell, Selected Poems (selection and introduction) American Poetry Project: The Library of America, October, 2004
The New Women’s Theatre: Ten Plays by Contemporary American Women, Vintage, 1977.
AS TRANSLATOR
Revenge, a novel by Taslima Nasrin, translated by Honor Moore with Taslima Nasrin, Feminist Press, 2010.
PLAY
Mourning Pictures (in verse), 1974
Mourning Pictures (2018) published at the Monstrous Regiment website: (http.//www.montrousregiment.co.uk/ (based in the archive of the Victoria and Albert Museum)
AWARDS
2017 Honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Iota Chapter at Harvard College.
2015 Residency, Corporation of Yaddo 2014 MacDowell Colony Fellow 2010, 2014, 2016 Director’s Guest, Civitella Rainieri 2010, 2014
2009 Finalist, The National Book Critics Circle, The Bishop’s Daughter 2009 Finalist, Lamda Book Award, The Bishop’s Daughter
2006 Residency UCross Foundation
2005: Fellowship, The Rockefeller Work and Study Center at Bellagio
2004: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (General Non-Fiction) 2003-2009 Fellowships, The MacDowell Colony; The Corporation of Yaddo
2002: Finalist, James Laughlin Award, Connecticut Book Award: Darling 2000: Humanities Laureate in Poetry, St. Joseph’s College, Hartford
1997: Finalist Lambda Literary/Judy Grahn Award for The White Blackbird
1992: Artist's Grant (Poetry), Connecticut Commission on the Arts
1981: Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry), NEA
1975: CAPS Grant (Playwriting) NYSCA.
PUBLICATIONS/POETRY
Play in verse: Mourning Pictures, in The New Women’s Theatre, Vintage 1977; http.//www.montrousregiment.co.uk/ (based in the archive of the Victoria and Albert Museum) See below for productions.
Journals/Magazines since 1992
2017: Poetry (Q&A); The Common (The Italian Lesson; Story [website]); Tin House (Surf; Chosen)
2016: Ploughshares, (“Night Café”)
Ploughshares, So to Speak, Hellas poetry 2015: Freeman's inaugural issue, “Arrivals” ; The Mogul Gardens Near May, 1962 (poem)
2013 Ploughshares: two poems
2012 The Common: “Song” (Best American Poems, 2012)
2011 Salmagundi, Poems: “The Return”, “The Poet’s Staircase” (forthcoming).
2010: Ploughshares (2 poems); Florida Review (2 poems and an interview)
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; Paris Review 154.
1999: Paris Review 149, Kunapipi (UK)
1998: Slate, Seneca Review
1997: Tikkun
1994: American Poetry Review, Caprice
1993: Hellas, Paris Review
Poetry Anthologies since 1984:
I Knew Now In Wonder: 25 Poems from the First 25 Years of Civitella Ranieri Foundation 2020
Feathers from the Angel’s Wing, Poems Inspired by the Paintings of Piero della Francesca, edited by Dana Prescott, Persea
Best American Poetry 2102, edited by Mark Doty and David Lehman; Scribner 2012.
Poems from the Women’s Movement, edited by Honor Moore, Library of America 2009
Best American Erotic Poetry: 1800-the present, edited by David Lehman, Scribner 2007
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. Includes Kinnell, Levertov, Olds (Univ. Press of New England, 1984).
Recordings:
1984: 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 Rich, Lorde, Joan Larkin), LP, Out and Out Books/Records 1978:"First Time: 1950", Black Box, Watershed Foundation audio
Film:
"She's Beautiful When She's Angry" (documentary, Second Wave Women's Movement) Poems from the Women's Movement (featured)
Excerpts of play Mourning Pictures in Once a Daughter, a film by Lyn Littman, PBS Stations, 1979
"Girlfriends", directed by Claudia Weill (Warner Brothers, 1978) protagonist, a poet, recites HM’s poem, "I Have A War With My Mother...". This film was one of 25 films each year admitted into the collection of the Library of Congress in December 2019.
PUBLICATIONS/PROSE since 1984
Periodicals, Websites
“What Would All Right Feel Like” Lithub, September 9, 2019
On Finishing the Book and Conjuring My Mother”, Lithub, January 3,2019
“After Ariel”, (intro. Poems from the Women’s Movement,) Boston Review,
March 2009
The Bishop’s Daughter (book excerpt) The New Yorker, March 2008
February 27, 2008 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. 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 House, Amitov 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.
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
"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 wkly, November 2, 1986.
"The Responsibility of the Poet in a Nuclear Age," Poets and Writers (Coda), June/July, 1985
Anthologies (prose):
“Changing the Subject: (What Would All Right Feel Like?)” – Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement, 2019
"My Hair, Myself and I" (Algonquin, 2015)
“Reading of O”, Sugar in My Bowl, Real Women Write About Real Sex, edited by Erica Jong, Harper (Spring 2011)
“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 Forche and Philip Gerard, Story Press, 200 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)
Introductions:
Revenge by Taslima Nasrin, translator’s note, Feminist Press, August 2010
Poems From the Womens’ Movement, American Poetry Project, Library of America, April 2009
The Stray Dog Cabaret, Afterword, 2006
Amy Lowell Selected Poems, American Poetry Project, Library of America, October 2004 Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood, New York Review Books, September 2002
PLAYS: PRODUCTIONS
Mourning Pictures (in verse); produced by Lyn Austin, Music Theatre Gp, Lenox, Mass., July 1974. By 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, Chicago, 1977 (Staged reading);Published The New Women's Theatre
TEACHING Universities:
The New School, Graduate Writing Program, Faculty, 1999-present;
Nonfiction Coordinator (head), 2013-present.
University of Iowa, Bedell Visiting Distinguished Writer in Creative Nonfiction, Spring 2012
University of Richmond, NEH Distinguished Writer in Residence, Fall 2011
Visiting Faculty, The Bennington Workshops, Spring, 2011
Barnard College, Adjunct writing instructor, Fall 2010
University of Iowa, Bedell Visiting Writer in Creative Nonfiction, full professor, Spring 2010.
Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Writing Program: Adjunct Professor in Creative NonFiction, 2001- 2007; 2013.
New York State Summer Writer’s Institute, Skidmore, manuscript consultant poetry and creative nonfiction, poetry and nonfiction workshops, 2001-2016.
Columbia University, School of the Arts; Master Class in Creative Non-Fiction, Spring 2001
Poet in Residence, Instructor “Writing Verse” poetry seminar, Wesleyan University Spring 2000 Wesleyan Writers Conference, Poetry, Summer 1999-2019, when program ended.
Visiting Lecturer in Creative Non-Fiction, The Bennington Workshops,
Winter 1999
Visiting Distinguished Writer in Creative Non-Fiction, University of Iowa,
Spring 1997
Visiting Scholar in Poetry and Drama, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 1980.
Workshops since 1992:
The Uses of Memory” – Workshop, Hedgebrook, Washington State, October 2009
Poetry, New York State Summer Writers Institute, 2010
The Loft, Nonfiction Mentor, February, 2009
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FLA
“The Uses of Memory, October 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 and Community workshops in Kent, Hartford, 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
Chief consultant: A Change of World, podcast and one hour radio documentary, Poetry Foundation, WNYC 2018: Faculty, LOFT, Minneapolis, 2009 Judge, Bush Artist Awards, Minneapolis, MN, 2008 Elector, Poets Corner, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 2000-2010 Selection Panel for grant to writers; served anonymously, 1988, 1997, 1999, 2001 Judge, National Book Award in Non-Fiction, 1998 Judge, PEN/Gerard Award in Non-Fiction 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. Judge, PEN/Revson Foundation Fellowship in Poetry, 1991 "The Voice of the Poet," producer/coordinator. American poets reading their short poems for NPR. Cofunded by National Endowment for the Arts, NPR, Poets & Writers, Inc., 1974
EXTENSIVE READINGS NATIONWIDE 1973-Present
List available on request, go to honormoore.com, or contact Anya Backlund at Blueflower Arts (anya@blueflowerarts.com)
BOARDS OF DIRECTORS AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
New York Institute for the Humanities, Fellow (2013-present); Advisory Council, Hedgebrook (2009 present), PEN American Center (2000- 2006, treasurer, 2003-2005; executive committee, 2004-2006). 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; Steering Committee and founding member, "Women Writing Women's Lives" seminar, New York Institute for the Humanities. 1991-1994; University Seminar on Women and Society, University Seminar, Columbia University (founding member).
EDUCATION
Yale School of Drama, MFA Program in Arts Administration n/d, 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.