Jane Shore (poet) explained

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]

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 . 89 . 30 . 31 .
My mother's foot2005Winter 2005–2006 . My mother's foot . . 98 .
Candles2005Winter 2005–2006 . Candles . . 98 .
Monday1988Winter 1988 . Monday . . 47 .
A yes-or-no answer2008Book: Shore, Jane . A yes-or-no answer : poems . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt . 2008 . 978-0-547-00603-1. ???Web site: Jane Shore's Poem 'A Yes-or-No Answer' . GW English News . George Washington University. Department of English . April 30, 2008 . 2015-02-09.
Buying a star2001Spring 2001 . [Poems by Jane Shore] ]. . 2 . 2 . 2015-02-09.
Driving lesson2001Spring 2001 . [Poems by Jane Shore] ]. . 2 . 2 . 2015-02-09.
Missing2001Spring 2001 . [Poems by Jane Shore] ]. . 2 . 2 . 2015-02-09.
Evil eye2001Spring 2001 . [Poems by Jane Shore] ]. . 2 . 2 . 2015-02-09.
data-sort-value="Slap"The slap2001Spring 2001 . [Poems by Jane Shore] ]. . 2 . 2 . 2015-02-09.
Who knows one2018Shore, Jane . April 2, 2018 . Who knows one . The New Yorker . 94 . 7 . 70–71 .
data-sort-value="Couple"The couple2020Shore, Jane . September 7, 2020 . . The New Yorker . 96 . 26 . 42–43 . 2021-10-13-->.

External links

Notes and References

  1. About Jane Shore: A Profile . Lorrie Goldensohn . Winter 1997–1998 . Ploughshares . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071012162815/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4378 . October 12, 2007 .
  2. Web site: Archived copy . 2009-05-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100619223851/http://www.radcliffe.edu/about/quarterly/w09_shore.aspx . 2010-06-19 . dead .
  3. Web site: A poem of loss for the economy | Marketplace.org . 2009-05-28 . https://archive.today/20120713045007/http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/05/11/pm_poetry_one_art/ . 2012-07-13 . dead .
  4. News: Press Release. houghtonmifflinbooks.com. 2009-01-25.
  5. News: The Bird man of east Calais, Vt. Novelist Howard Norman hatches ideas in his mountain home . https://web.archive.org/web/20121023011946/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8294042.html. dead. October 23, 2012. Doten. Patti Doten. August 30, 1994. The Boston Globe. 2009-01-23.
  6. Spring 2001. Jane Shore. Poetry Quarterly. washingtonart.com. 2. 2.
  7. Norman. Howard. Fall 2003. Guest Editor's Note. Conjunctions. 41. 2009-05-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20080515061558/http://www.conjunctions.com/archives/c41-hn.htm. 2008-05-15. dead.
  8. Web site: The Ups, Downs and Up Again of the Book Deal. Goldstein. M.M.. October 1, 1998. newenglandfilm.com. 2009-01-23. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100211095049/http://newenglandfilm.com/news/archives/98october/laletter.htm. February 11, 2010.
  9. Web site: Senseless tragedy strikes the American poetry scene. December 5, 2004. chicagopoetry.com. 2009-01-23. 2011-10-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20111001125836/http://chicagopoetry.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=194&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0. dead.
  10. News: A loss for words: Reetika Vazirani, poet and professor, commits suicide at 40. Fiore. Kristina. September 9, 2003. The Signal. 2009-01-23. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080616225456/http://media.www.signal-online.net/media/storage/paper771/news/2003/09/09/Features/A.Loss.For.Words.Reetika.Vazirani.Poet.And.Professor.Commits.Suicide.At.40-1176103.shtml. June 16, 2008.
  11. News: 'No Place Like Home': Reclaiming a 'Haunted' House. NPR.org. 2018-03-13. en.
  12. Web site: Read By Author Ploughshares. www.pshares.org. en. 2018-03-13.
  13. Web site: English Department - The George Washington University The George Washington University. www.gwu.edu. en. 2018-03-13.

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