Moira Linehan. Courtesy Porter Square Books.
Moira Linehan (born 1945) is an American poet.
Life[]
Linehan graduated from Boston College,[1] and then earned an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts.[2]
She lives in Winchester, Massachusetts, where she works as an academic administrator.[3] She has been a resident at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Millay Colony.[4]
Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Green Mountains Review, Notre Dame Review,[3] Indiana Review, and Triquarterly.[5][6][7]
In 2009 Linehan was diagnosed with breast cancer, an experience she wrote about in her 2015 collection, Incarnate Grace.[8]
Writing[]
Growler Poetry Review: "Many poets, I presume, write with ghosts around them. Moira Linehan writes in the company of her husband’s ghost—made a ghost by succumbing to a four-year fight with cancer. Linehan invites the intrusion of her husband into many of her poems and even when she tries to uninvite him, Linehan and the reader realize that he is the permanent resident of her pages. Rarely is the process of grief so heartbreakingly rendered. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross could not have more accurately transferred the stages of grief into poetry. In her opening poem Linehan makes it clear that the reader, also, will be kept company by a haunting: “keep in mind, no matter where / this story goes, there’s a body / at the bottom of the quarry.” There is no avoiding this body as Linehan gradually closes the gap between the words, “absence,” and “presence.” [9]
Recognition[]
- 2006 Crab Orchard Award
- 2001 Honorable mention Thomas Merton Prize of Poetry of the Sacred[10]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- If No Moon. Carbondale, IL: Crab Orchard Review / Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8093-2761-4
- Incarnate Grace. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015.
Edited[]
- Tendril Magazine Presents: The poet's choice (edited with Chuck Ozug). Green Harbor, MA: Tendril, 1980.
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Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[11]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ http://bcm.bc.edu/readerslist/summer_2007/
- ↑ http://www.newtonfreelibrarypoetryseries.blogspot.com/
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Moira Linehan, Poetry Foundation. Web, Oct. 18, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.millaycolony.org/alumni_news
- ↑ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-20560911.html
- ↑ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-20560912.html
- ↑ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-20560910.html
- ↑ Interview with Moira Linehan, Author of “If No Moon”, Geosi Reads, December 12, 2014. Web, Oct. 18, 2015.
- ↑ "If No Moon, Moira Linehan", Growler Poetry Review, Michael Turner
- ↑ https://www.mertoninstitute.org/merton_prize_winners_2001.php
- ↑ Search results = au:Moira Linehan, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Oct. 18, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Bees". Prairie Schooner. 2009. http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/current/mlinehan.html. Template:Dead link
- "Vocation". Prairie Schooner. 2009. http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/archives/win04/linehan.html.
- "The Design", Verse Daily
- "Understory", Boston College Magazine, Winter 2008
- Moira Linehan at the Poetry Foundation
- Books
- Moira Linehan at Amazon.com
- About
- Moira Linehan Official website.
- Interview with Moira Linehan, Author of “If No Moon” at Geosi Reads, 2014.
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