Amanda Moore
Amanda Moore | |
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| Born | April 18, 1975 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Education | Coe College (BA) Cornell University (MFA) |
| Genre | Poetry |
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Amanda P. Moore (born April 18, 1975) is an American poet.
Life
Moore graduated from Coe College in 1997.[1] She completed an MFA at Cornell in 2001 along with poet Crystal Williams.
Moore lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter and teaches high school. She is a surfer[2] and a beekeeper.[3]
Career
Moore's 2021 Requeening was selected by writer Ocean Vuong to win the National Poetry Series.[4] Vuong called the book “A rare feat for any book of poems, let alone a debut, in that the lines, wrought with such deft precision and care, mark the sum total of a life richly lived and felt at the seat of poetry...These poems care, first and foremost, for what they write of and through, which is a much needed—yet increasingly rare—achievement.”[5]
Victoria Chang said "this book was interesting because of the multifaceted ways the poems and the book are complicated — there’s the obvious bee frame/poems that are sprinkled throughout, there are the various forms such as haibuns, there are the various subject matters from parenting to illness to beekeeping to marriage to womanhood to place-based poems, and more."[6]
Moore's poetry addresses themes of motherhood,[7] illness,[8] grief, and loss.[9] The Rumpus, upon selecting Requeening as a poetry book club selection said Moore "approaches all of these subjects with language that is by turns delicate and direct."[10] Her poems are described as having "variety and depth."[11]
Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Best New Poets, ZZYZVA, Catapult, Ploughshares[12], LitHub, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting, and her essays have appeared in Poets & Writers, The Baltimore Review, Hippocampus Magazine, and Catapult.
In addition to writing, Moore continues work as a teacher, which also informs her poetry.[13] She is also a former poetry co-editor at Women’s Voices for Change and a reader at Bull City Press’s INCH.
Awards and fellowships
Moore is the recipient of writing awards and fellowships from The Writers Grotto, The Writing Salon (Winner of 2017 Jane Underwood Prize), Brush Creek Arts Foundation, The Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and the Brown-Handler Residency at the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.[14] She was also the 2019 Christine Prose Poetry Award winner.[15]
Books
- Requeening (Harper Collins/Ecco, 2021)[16]
References
- ↑ "Kohawk's debut poetry book is a 2020 National Poetry Series winner; set to publish this month". Coe College News and Features. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
- ↑ Spencer, Molly. "A Small Universe Set in Motion: Talking with Amanda Moore". The Rumpus. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
- ↑ "Dion O'Reilly talks with Bay Area Poet Amanda Moore". The Hive Poetry Collective. 2019-09-02. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ↑ admin (2020-09-17). "The National Poetry Series Announces 2020 Contest Winners". National Poetry Series. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ↑ "Requeening". HarperCollinsPublishers. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
- ↑ Chang, Victoria; Radar, Dean (28 March 2022). "Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of First Books: Amanda Moore's "Requeening," Paul Tran's "All the Flowers Kneeling," and Devon Walker-Figueroa's "Philomath"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
- ↑ "Pedestal Magazine » Amanda Moore's Requeening, Reviewed by Erica Goss". www.thepedestalmagazine.com. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ↑ "Issue Forty-Three: A Conversation Between Amanda Moore and Shelley Wong - The Adroit Journal". 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ↑ Redfern, Erin (2022). "Leading All Our Voices to Thrum: Amanda Moore's Requeening". The Hopkins Review. 15 (1): 144–149. ISSN 1939-9774.
- ↑ Spears, Brian (2021-09-02). "Why We Chose Amanda Moore's Requeening for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club". The Rumpus. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ↑ Darling, Kristina Marie (2022-01-01). "The Prismatic World of Amanda Moore: A Review of Requeening". Tupelo Quarterly. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ↑ Moore, Amanda (2023). "On Desire". Ploughshares. 49 (1): 149–149. ISSN 0048-4474.
- ↑ Koenig, Andrew. "Requeening". Harvard Review. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ↑ "Amanda Moore". The National Poetry Series. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
- ↑ "Amanda Moore - Haibun in the Middle of the Night". EASTERN IOWA REVIEW. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ↑ Moore, Amanda (2021). Requeening. Harper Collins/Ecco. p. 112. ISBN 9780063096288. Search this book on
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