Jane Shore (poet)

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Jane Shore is an American poet.

Life

She graduated from Goddard College, and moved from Vermont to the Iowa Writers' Workshop. [1] She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1972, [2] where she was a student of Elizabeth Bishop. [3]

Contents

Shore met Howard Norman in 1981, and they married in 1984 [4] They have a daughter, Emma (born 1988).

Norman and Shore lived in Cambridge, New Jersey, Oahu, and Vermont, before settling into homes in Chevy Chase, Maryland near Washington, D.C. during the school year, and East Calais, Vermont [5] in the summertime. [6] [7] Their friend, the author David Mamet and Shore's Goddard College classmate, lives nearby. [8]

During the summer of 2003, poet Reetika Vazirani was housesitting the Normans' Chevy Chase home. There, on July 16, she killed her young son before committing suicide. [9] [10] [11]

Career

She has edited Ploughshares , [12] and her poems have been published in numerous magazines, including Poetry, The New Republic, and The Yale Review

She was Radcliffe Institute, fellow in poetry, 1971–73, and Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in English at Harvard University, 1973—, and Jenny McKean Moore Writer at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She was visiting distinguished poet at the University of Hawaii. [12]

She is currently a professor at The George Washington University. [13]

Awards

Bibliography

Poetry collections

Anthologies

Poems

TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected in
This one2013Shore, Jane (September 30, 2013). "This one". The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 30. p. 31.
My mother's foot2005"My mother's foot". Ploughshares . 98. Winter 2005–2006.
Candles2005"Candles". Ploughshares . 98. Winter 2005–2006.
Monday1988"Monday". Ploughshares . 47. Winter 1988.
A yes-or-no answer2008Shore, Jane (2008). A yes-or-no answer : poems. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   978-0-547-00603-1. ??? "Jane Shore's Poem 'A Yes-or-No Answer'". GW English News. George Washington University. Department of English. April 30, 2008. Retrieved 2015-02-09.
Buying a star2001 "[Poems by Jane Shore]". Beltway Poetry Quarterly . 2 (2). Spring 2001. Retrieved 2015-02-09.
Driving lesson2001 "[Poems by Jane Shore]". Beltway Poetry Quarterly . 2 (2). Spring 2001. Retrieved 2015-02-09.
Missing2001 "[Poems by Jane Shore]". Beltway Poetry Quarterly . 2 (2). Spring 2001. Retrieved 2015-02-09.
Evil eye2001 "[Poems by Jane Shore]". Beltway Poetry Quarterly . 2 (2). Spring 2001. Retrieved 2015-02-09.
The slap2001 "[Poems by Jane Shore]". Beltway Poetry Quarterly . 2 (2). Spring 2001. Retrieved 2015-02-09.
Who knows one2018Shore, Jane (April 2, 2018). "Who knows one". The New Yorker. Vol. 94, no. 7. pp. 70–71.
The couple2020Shore, Jane (September 7, 2020). "The couple". The New Yorker. Vol. 96, no. 26. pp. 42–43.

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  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-19. Retrieved 2009-05-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ "A poem of loss for the economy | Marketplace.org". Archived from the original on 2012-07-13. Retrieved 2009-05-28.
  4. ↑ "Press Release". houghtonmifflinbooks.com. Retrieved 2009-01-25.
  5. ↑ Doten, Patti Doten (August 30, 1994). "The Bird man of east Calais, Vt. Novelist Howard Norman hatches ideas in his mountain home". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on October 23, 2012. Retrieved 2009-01-23.
  6. ↑ "Jane Shore". Poetry Quarterly. washingtonart.com. 2 (2). Spring 2001.
  7. ↑ Norman, Howard (Fall 2003). "Guest Editor's Note". Conjunctions. 41. Archived from the original on 2008-05-15. Retrieved 2009-05-28.
  8. ↑ Goldstein, M.M. (October 1, 1998). "The Ups, Downs and Up Again of the Book Deal". newenglandfilm.com. Archived from the original on February 11, 2010. Retrieved 2009-01-23.
  9. ↑ "Senseless tragedy strikes the American poetry scene". chicagopoetry.com. December 5, 2004. Archived from the original on 2011-10-01. Retrieved 2009-01-23.
  10. ↑ Fiore, Kristina (September 9, 2003). "A loss for words: Reetika Vazirani, poet and professor, commits suicide at 40". The Signal. Archived from the original on June 16, 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-23.
  11. ↑ "'No Place Like Home': Reclaiming a 'Haunted' House". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  12. 1 2 "Read By Author | Ploughshares". www.pshares.org. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  13. ↑ "English Department - The George Washington University | The George Washington University". www.gwu.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
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