Writings
Arthur Miller, Neighbor and Friend
Honor reflects on time spent with Arthur Miller via the photographs of Inge Morath and fellow Magnum photographers
Placing Women at the Center: A Conversation with Honor MoorE
4.23.21 | Los Angeles Review of Books
Smooth Talk: Girl Power
2.23.21 | Criterion Collection
The Secrets Mothers and Daughters Keep From One Another
Honor Moore on Finding Out Parents Are People Too
Literary Hub | 4.11.2020
My father came here every summer of his life, and my mother, every summer of their marriage. It was the place where we marked the progress of our childhoods—where we swam and rowed, learned Liar’s Dice and Scrabble, climbed mountains and played prisoner’s base. Other than playing tennis on the dilapidated court, my mother didn’t like being there much—too isolated; she looked awkward on hikes, but right at home lying on this porch reading. Once in a while though, she’d initiate “a new phase”—as when she conspired with my most mechanically minded cousin to purchase a motor boat (long forbidden by Gramps, now dead). The purpose was not to replace the old guide boats and canoes, but to institute water-skiing: Really, what’s the point of the lake? She took up waterskiing with a competitor’s panache, skimming the sparkling surface, one of my brothers steering the boat in fast, wide loops until she wiped out amid cheers to begin again.
Five Questions with Honor Moore
“My favorite villain is Iago in Othello– studying him taught me that villains are indirect and that stories are created by those who participate in them – a new idea when I was 20 and in college. Shakespeare’s Iago is an evolved version of a recurring character in early Tudor drama, the manipulator with a touch of the devil, a kind of sinister “show-runner” who in his lack of morality and conscience is a source of terror.”
The New School | 4.6.2020
Five Books about Women’s Choices and Consequences
Honor Moore, the author of Our Revolution, shares five books in her life.
Literary Hub | 3.31.2020
Honor Moore Finally Feels Like Her Mother’s Daughter
Premonition A Poem by Honor Moore
From the Reprinted 1988 Collection Memoir
Literary Hub | 11.19.19
What Would All Right Feel Like? Honor Moore Tells Her Story
On the Private Moments That Lead to a Public Movement
Literary Hub | 9.9.19
A Space for Bette Howland
The Paris Review | 5.6.19
On Finishing the Book and Conjuring My Mother
“I will finish for good, I pledged, by the anniversary of her death.”
“After I wrote her first draft death in late August, I drove weeping to a friend’s to swim, got pulled over by a policeman for crossing a yellow line: What’s wrong? he asked. I looked at his child-like face and thought, I’ll never explain the 45-year gap. “My mother just died,” I said. Compassion crossed his face. He gave me a warning.”
Literary Hub | 1.3.19
A Change of World
NARRATED BY MERYL STREEP
“By the 1970s women poets were publishing a huge variety of poetry that simply was not imaginable a decade earlier. Yet they still didn’t have mainstream literary approval. When Adrienne Rich won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1974, she accepted on behalf of her fellow nominees Audre Lorde and Alice Walker. This was a watershed moment. As Honor Moore says, ‘It was shocking. Feminism had no standing in the culture. It was courageous in the sense that none of these three poets would ever be accepted or considered in the same way again.’”
The Poetry Foundation | 3.14.18
A Change of World
A FIVE EPISODE SERIES
In honor of the recent Women's March on Washington, listen to Honor speak in a Poetry Off the Shelf special series on the women's movement. Honor was chief consultant for episodes 1-4. Feast your ears on the whole thing at the Poetry Foundation.
The Poetry Foundation | 3.6.18
Honor Moore: Beautiful, Beautiful
A Conversation with Honor Moore
Martha’s Vineyard Arts & Ideas | 2015
A Window at Key West
The Paris Review | Issue 149, Winter1998
Mourning Pictures
Founded in 1975, Monstrous Regiment was a performance collective performing art that centered women. Check out their new archival site for stunning photos and company history. And check out the page that features Moore's 1981 play, Mourning Pictures, first produced in the US at the Lenox Arts Center in Massachusetts and on Broadway in 1974.
Monstrous Regiment | 1974