Jane Shore is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...

Life

She graduated from

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, and moved from Vermont to the

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. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1972, where she was a student of

Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Awar ...

. Shore met

Howard Norman Howard A. Norman (born 1949), is an American writer and educator. Most of his short stories and novels are set in Canada's Maritime Provinces. He has written several translations of Algonquin, Cree, and Inuit folklore. His books have been trans ...

in 1981, and they married in 1984 They have a daughter, Emma (born 1988). Norman and Shore lived in

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, New Jersey, Oahu, and Vermont, before settling into homes in Chevy Chase, Maryland near

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during the school year, and

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in the summertime. Their friend, the author

David Mamet David Alan Mamet (; born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, filmmaker, and author. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays ''Glengarry Glen Ross'' (1984) and '' Speed-the-Plow'' (1988). He first gained cri ...

and Shore's

classmate, lives nearby. 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.

Career

She has edited ''

Ploughshares ''Ploughshares'' is an American literary journal established in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, ''Ploughshares'' has been based at Emerson College in Bos ...

'', 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

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, 1973—, and Jenny McKean Moore Writer at

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in Washington, D.C. She was visiting distinguished poet at the

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. She is currently a professor at

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Awards

* ''Eye Level'', winner of the 1977 Juniper Prize * ''The Minute Hand'', awarded the 1986

Lamont Poetry Prize The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreach ...

* ''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

Bibliography

Poetry collections

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Anthologies

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Poems

References

External links

"Jane Shore and Dabney Stuart Poetry Reading", 10/23/2008, Library of Congress

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