Honor Moore

Honor Moore

Honor Moore is the author of three collections of poems: Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir; the biography The White Blackbird, A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter, named a New York Times Notable Book; and, most recently, the memoir The Bishop’s Daughter. Her play Mourning Pictures, was produced on Broadway and published in The New Women’s Theatre: Ten Plays by Contemporary American Women, which she edited. She is also the editor of Amy Lowell: Selected Poems for the Library of America and co-editor of At the Stray Dog Cabaret, A Book of Russian Poems translated by Paul Schmidt. Moore has received awards in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and in playwriting from the New York State Council on the Arts. Poems and prose have appeared in The American Scholar, Salmagundi, Conjunctions, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Open City, the Paris Review and other journals and anthologies. She teaches in the graduate writing program at the New School and Colombia, and has also taught nonfiction in the graduate programs at the University of Iowa and Columbia University School of the Arts and poetry at Wesleyan University.

Event
Memoirists Honor Moore and Scott Huler
When: Sun, Sep 21, 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Where: Old Town Hall, 3999 University Drive, Fairfax, VA (map)
Description: Acclaimed poet and memoirist Moore reads from her new book, The Bishop's Daughter, examining the secret life of her late father, Paul Moore, Bishop of the Diocese of New York. National Public Radio regular Huler takes a journey into mythic Greece, modern Greece and the first days of middle age with No-Man’s Land: One Man’s Odyssey Through the Odyssey. A reception precedes the reading.