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Jane Shore. Courtesy The Arts Fuse.

Jane Shore. Courtesy The Arts Fuse.

Jane Shore (born 1947) is an American poet and academic.[1]

Life[]

Shore graduated from Goddard College, and moved from Vermont to attend the Iowa Writers' Workshop.[2] In 1972 she graduated from Radcliffe College,[3] where she was a student of Elizabeth Bishop.[4]

Shore met Howard Norman in 1981, and they married in 1984[5] 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[6] in the summertime.[7][8] Their friend and Shore's Goddard College classmate, author David Mamet, lives nearby.[9]

During the summer of 2003, poet Reetika Vazirani was housesitting the Norman's Chevy Chase home. There, on July 16, she killed her young son before committing suicide.[10][11][12]

Career[]

Shore has edited Ploughshares,[13] 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, 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.[13]

She is a professor at George Washington University.[1]

Writing[]

Robert Boyers said of her: "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]

Recognition[]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • Lying Down in the Olive Press (chapbook). Goddard Journal Press, 1969.
  • Eye Level. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977.
  • The Minute Hand. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.
  • Music Minus One. New York: Picador, 1996.
  • Happy Family: Poems. New York: Picador, 1999.
  • A Yes-or-No Answer: Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008.
  • That Said: New and selected poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.

Anthologized[]

  • Ten American Poets (edited by James Atlas). Manchester, UK: Carcanet Press, 1973.[1]
  • Out of This World: Poems from the Hawkeye State (edited by Gildner). Iowa State University Press, 1975.[1]


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the WorldCat.[15]

Audio / video[]

  • Jane Shore Reading (CD). Aspen, CO: Aspen Writers Foundation, 1978.

See also[]

References[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Jane Shore b. 1947, Poetry Foundation. Web, Dec. 4, 2012.
  2. ↑ Lorrie Goldensohn (Winter 1997-98). "About Jane Shore: A Profile". Ploughshares. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4378.  Template:Dead link
  3. ↑ http://www.radcliffe.edu/about/quarterly/w09_shore.aspx
  4. ↑ http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/05/11/pm_poetry_one_art/
  5. ↑ "Press Release". houghtonmifflinbooks.com. http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/booksellers/press_release/norman/. Retrieved 2009-01-25. 
  6. ↑ 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. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8294042.html. Retrieved 2009-01-23. 
  7. ↑ "Jane Shore". Poetry Quarterly (washingtonart.com) 2 (2). Spring 2001. http://washingtonart.com/beltway/shore.html. 
  8. ↑ Norman, Howard (Fall 2003). "Guest Editor's Note". Conjunctions 41. http://www.conjunctions.com/archives/c41-hn.htm. 
  9. ↑ Goldstein, M.M. (October 1, 1998). "The Ups, Downs and Up Again of the Book Deal". newenglandfilm.com. http://www.newenglandfilm.com/news/archives/98october/laletter.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-23. 
  10. ↑ "Senseless tragedy strikes the American poetry scene". chicagopoetry.com. December 5, 2004. http://chicagopoetry.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=194&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0. Retrieved 2009-01-23. 
  11. ↑ Fiore, Kristina (September 9, 2003). "A loss for words: Reetika Vazirani, poet and professor, commits suicide at 40". The Signal. 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. Retrieved 2009-01-23. 
  12. ↑ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1550015
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1401
  14. ↑ Robert Boyers (2002). A book of common praise. Ausable Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-1-931337-03-8. http://books.google.com/?id=Pz8wQkQViMUC&pg=PA94&dq=Jane+Shore+poet.. 
  15. ↑ Search results = au:Jane Shore, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Feb. 15, 2015.

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