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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]

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 in to 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

  • Eye Level, winner of the 1977 Juniper Prize
  • The Minute Hand, awarded the 1986 Lamont Poetry Prize
  • Music Minus One, a finalist for the 1996 National Book Critic Circle Award
  • 1991 Guggenheim Fellowship
  • two grants from the N.E.A.
  • fellow in poetry at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute
  • Alfred Hodder Fellow at Princeton University
  • Goodyear Fellow at the Foxcroft School in Virginia

Critical reception

Robert Boyers said of Shore:

Put another way, there is in the poetry of Jane Shore, a freshness of outlook, even when the dominant instinct is retrospective. The poems seem a vivid refusal of desolation, though there is no reluctance in them, to confront the usual varieties of estrangement and suffering....This is a poet who gives to directness, honesty of emotion and fundamental sanity the good name they deserve.[14]

Bibliography

Poetry collections

  • Lying Down in the Olive Press. Goddard Journal Press. 1969.
  • Jane Shore. (1977). Eye Level. University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst). ISBN 978-0-87023-246-6.
  • Jane Shore. (1987). The Minute Hand. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-0-87023-570-2.
  • Jane Shore. (1996). Music Minus One. New York City: Picador USA. ISBN 978-0-312-16944-2.
  • Jane Shore. (1999). Happy Family: Poems. Picador USA. ISBN 978-0-312-20310-8.
  • Shore, Jane (2008). A yes-or-no answer : poems. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-547-00603-1. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)

Anthologies

Poems

Title Year First published Reprinted/collected in
This one 2013 "This one". The New Yorker. 89 (30): 31. September 30, 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)
My mother's foot 2005 "My mother's foot". Ploughshares. 98. Winter 2005–2006. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)
Candles 2005 "Candles". Ploughshares. 98. Winter 2005–2006. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)
Monday 1988 "Monday". Ploughshares. 47. Winter 1988. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)
A yes-or-no answer 2008 Shore, Jane (2008). A yes-or-no answer : poems. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-547-00603-1. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help) ??? "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. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
Buying a star 2001 "[Poems by Jane Shore]". Beltway Poetry Quarterly. 2 (2). Spring 2001. Retrieved 2015-02-09. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)
Driving lesson 2001 "[Poems by Jane Shore]". Beltway Poetry Quarterly. 2 (2). Spring 2001. Retrieved 2015-02-09. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)
Missing 2001 "[Poems by Jane Shore]". Beltway Poetry Quarterly. 2 (2). Spring 2001. Retrieved 2015-02-09. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)
Evil eye 2001 "[Poems by Jane Shore]". Beltway Poetry Quarterly. 2 (2). Spring 2001. Retrieved 2015-02-09. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)
The slap 2001 "[Poems by Jane Shore]". Beltway Poetry Quarterly. 2 (2). Spring 2001. Retrieved 2015-02-09. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)

References

  1. ^ Lorrie Goldensohn (Winter 1997–1998). "About Jane Shore: A Profile". Ploughshares. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ http://www.radcliffe.edu/about/quarterly/w09_shore.aspx
  3. ^ http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/05/11/pm_poetry_one_art/
  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. Retrieved 2009-01-23.
  6. ^ "Jane Shore". Poetry Quarterly. 2 (2). washingtonart.com. Spring 2001.
  7. ^ Norman, Howard (Fall 2003). "Guest Editor's Note". Conjunctions. 41.
  8. ^ Goldstein, M.M. (October 1, 1998). "The Ups, Downs and Up Again of the Book Deal". newenglandfilm.com. Retrieved 2009-01-23.
  9. ^ "Senseless tragedy strikes the American poetry scene". chicagopoetry.com. December 5, 2004. 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. Retrieved 2009-01-23.
  11. ^ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1550015
  12. ^ a b http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1401
  13. ^ http://www.gwu.edu/~english/faculty_shore.html
  14. ^ Robert Boyers (2002). A book of common praise. Ausable Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-1-931337-03-8.
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