Marianne moore

folklorepoetry-apoemfortheday on Instagram: “Poem for Friday May 6th. I May, I might, I must by Marianne Moore.”

Marianne Moore, "The Fish"

For Women's History month, curator David C. Ward considers the steady ascendency of poets from Emily Dickinson to today's Eavan Boland

November 1935 | Harriet Monroe, James Hearst, Edith Henrich, John Holmes, May Lewis, Virginia McCall, Dorothy McLemore, Marianne Moore, Lola Pergament, Leetha Probst, Idella Purnell, Kathryn Worth, D. Bridson, T. Wilson, Marguerite Young

Heather Cass White’s New Collected Poems of Marianne Moore is no small event in American poetry: it is the first edition of Moore’s work that actually is

Dan Chiasson on the modernist poet and editor Marianne Moore’s relationship with her mother, Mary Warner Moore, to whom much of Moore’s work owes a linguistic and personal debt.

1. Dim-Post channels Marianne Moore (seen above with a cockatoo: I couldn’t find an online version of the photo from the same shoot I have on my wall of her with a zebra) with his post “Real toads in imaginary gardens” which uses a line from the original version of her poem “Poetry”. The later, much much shorter version reads: I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.2. The Sunday Star-Times outs Cactus…

Black Earth by Marianne Moore pg 1

In the midst of the energetic discussion around the recent "Listening to Poetry" post, I happened to come across the following extraordinary poem again. It was in a wonderful...

“I think the most difficult thing for me is to be satisfactorily lucid, yet have enough implication in the writing to suit myself.”