Curriculum Vitae
BOOKS
Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury
WW Norton, forthcoming March 2020
The Bishop’s Daughter (memoir)
WW Norton, May 2008,
paper and ebook, 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
Red Shoes (poems)
WW Norton, June 2005
paper and ebook 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,
Paper and ebook, WW Norton, April 2009
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Memoir (poems)
Chicory Blue Press 1988
EDITOR
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
TRANSLATOR
Revenge, a novel by Taslima Nasrin
Translated by Honor Moore with Taslima Nasrin, Feminist Press, 2010.
PLAY
Mourning Pictures (in verse)
Produced on Broadway, 197l, London, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, etc.
BOOKS IN PROGRESS
Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Mid-Century; (forthcoming, March 2020)
third in trilogy of nonfiction books about my family; under contract to WW Norton
Q&A, poems; my fourth volume, (completion projected, 2017).
Writing the Women’s Movement (@1963-1980s) (2020)
Initiated by HM, co-edited with Alix Kates Shulman, Library of America,
to be published in 2020, the centenary of American Woman’s Suffrage.
AWARDS
2015-2015
Fellow in Residence, New York Institute for the Humanities, NYU
2015
Residency, Corporation of Yaddo
2014
MacDowell Colony Fellow
2010, 2014
Director’s Guest, Civitella Ranieri
2009
Finalist, The National Book Critics Circle, The Bishop’s Daughter
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, The James Laughlin Award and the Connecticut Book Award for Darling
2000
Humanities Laureate in Poetry, St. Joseph’s College, Hartford
1997
Finalist Lambda Literary Award, Finalist The Judy Grahn Award for The White Blackbird
1992
Artist's Grant (Poetry), Connecticut Commission on the Arts
1981
Creative Writing Fellowship ( Poetry), the National Endowment for the Arts
1975
Creative Artists Public Service grant (Playwriting) N.Y. State Council on the Arts
PUBLICATIONS/POETRY
PLAY IN VERSE: Mourning Pictures, in The New Women’s Theatre, Vintage 1977;
See below for productionS
RECENT JOURNALS/
MAGAZINES
earlier publications available on request
2017
Poetry, February 2017: “Q&A”
Tin House, Summer, 2017; “Surf” and “Chosen”
The Common, “The Italian Lesson” (summer, journal); “Courtyard” (spring, web).
2016
Ploughshares (guest editors Alan Shapiro; Tom Sleigh): “Night Café”
2015
Freeman's Arrival (inaugural issue): “The Mogul Gardens Near Mah, 1962”
HOW Journal: “For Marian, About the Afterlife”; “Snow White”.
2014
Harvard Review: “Naked”, “Story”.
2012
The Common: “Song” (Best American Poems, 2012)
2011
Salmagundi: “The Return”, “The Poet’s Staircase”.
2010
Ploughshares (guest editor, Elizabeth Strout): “Overnight at Key West” “Sunblind at Huayapam”; Florida Review: “Waking”; “Psyche in Autumn.” Interview of HM.
2005
Boston Review (spring: “Disparu”; “Corridor”)
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 (one poem).
Poetry publications began in 1969
RECENT ANTHOLOGIES
(poetry)
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
Women’s Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English
edited by Eva Salzman and Amy Wack.
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
"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) “Girlfriends”, directed by Claudia Weill (Warner Brothers, 1978) protagonist, a poet, recites HM’s poem, “I Have A War With My Mother...”
RECENT PUBLICATIONS/PROSE
Journals/Magazines/Newspapers:
“After Ariel”, (intro. Poems from the Women’s Movement,)
Boston Review, March 2009
The Bishop’s Daughter (book excerpt)
The New Yorker, 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
Anthologies (prose):
"My Hair, Myself and I"
(Algonquin, forthcoming 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, 2001 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/expanded ed.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)
PLAYS: PRODUCTIONS
Mourning Pictures (in verse)
Produced by Lyn Austin, 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
The New School, Graduate Writing Program
Faculty, 1999 - present; Nonfiction Coordinator (head), 2013-present.
University of Iowa, Bedell
Visiting Distinguished Writer in Creative Nonfiction, Full professor, Spring 2012
University of Richmond, NEH
Distinguished Writer in Residence, Fall 2011
The Bennington Workshops
Visiting Faculty, Spring, 2011
Barnard College
Adjunct writing instructor, Fall 2010
University of Iowa, Bedell
Visiting Distinguished Writer in Creative Nonfiction, Full professor, Spring 2010
Columbia University, School of the Arts Graduate Writing Program
Adjunct Professor in Creative Non-Fiction, 2001- 2007; 2013.
New York State Summer Writer’s Institute, Skidmore
Manuscript consultant poetry and creative non-fiction, poetry and nonfiction workshops, 2001-present
Columbia University, Master Class in Creative Non-Fiction
Spring 2001
Wesleyan University Poet in Residence
Instructor “Writing Verse” poetry seminar, Spring 2000
Wesleyan Writers Conference, Poetry
Summer 1999-present
The Bennington Workshops
Visiting Lecturer in Creative Non-Fiction, Winter, 1999
University of Iowa
Visiting Distinguished Writer in Creative Non-Fiction, Spring 1997
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Visiting Scholar in Poetry and Drama, 1980
Workshops
Memoir Workshop, 92d Street YMCA, NYC 2013
Nonfiction Workshop, Roe Camp, 2012
Poetry, New York State Summer Writers Institute, 2010
Workshop, “The Uses of Memory,” Hedgebrook, Washington State, October 2009
The Loft, Nonfiction Mentor, February, 2009
“The Uses of Memory”, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FLA, October 2008
Poetry, St. Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire, 2002
Creative Non-Fiction, George Mason University, 2002
Poetry, Key West Workshops, 2000.
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, sponsoredthe Young Writers Institute, 1994-1995.
Private and Community workshops in Kent, Ct. And 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
Advisory Board, Library of America
2015-present
Poetry Editor, HOW Journal
2005-Present
Chief consultant, Podcast, American Women Poets, Poetry Foundation
2016-2017
Elector, Poets Corner, Cathedral of St. John the Divine
2000-2010
Faculty, LOFT, Minneapolis
2009
Judge, Bush Artist Awards, Minneapolis, MN
2008
Judge, PEN Poetry Career Poetry Award
2002
Selection Panel for prominent 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
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. American poets reading their short poems for NPR.
Co-funded by National Endowment for the Arts, NPR, Poets & Writers, Inc.,
1974
EXTENSIVE READINGS NATIONWIDE
1973-Present
List available on request, or at honormoore.com,
or Blueflower Arts (blueflowerarts.com)
BOARDS OF DIRECTORS AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
New York Institute for the Humanities, NYU, 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, membership continues; 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