Jane Shore is an Americanpoet.

She graduated fromGoddard College, and moved from Vermont to theIowa Writers' Workshop.^[1] She graduated fromRadcliffe College in 1972,^[2] where she was a student ofElizabeth Bishop.^[3]

Shore metHoward Norman in 1981, and they married in 1984.^[4] They have a daughter, Emma (born 1988).

Norman and Shore lived inCambridge, New Jersey, Oahu, and Vermont, before settling into homes inChevy Chase, Maryland nearWashington, D.C. during the school year, andEast Calais, Vermont^[5] in the summertime.^[6][7] Their friend, the authorDavid Mamet and Shore'sGoddard College classmate, lives nearby.^[8]

During the summer of 2003, poetReetika Vazirani was housesitting the Normans' Chevy Chase home. There, on July 16, she killed her young son before committing suicide.^[9][10][11]

She has editedPloughshares,^[12] and her poems have been published in numerous magazines, includingPoetry,The New Republic, andThe Yale Review

She wasRadcliffe Institute, fellow in poetry, 1971–73, and Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in English atHarvard University, 1973—, and Jenny McKean Moore Writer atGeorge Washington University in Washington, D.C. She was visiting distinguished poet at theUniversity of Hawaii.^[12]

She is currently a professor at theGeorge Washington University.^[13]

• Eye Level, winner of the 1977 Juniper Prize
• The Minute Hand, awarded the 1986Lamont Poetry Prize
• Music Minus One, a finalist for the 1996 National Book Critic Circle Award
• 1991Guggenheim 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

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• Shore, Jane (1969).Lying Down in the Olive Press. Goddard Journal Press.
• — (1977).Eye Level. University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst).ISBN 978-0-87023-246-6.
• — (1987).The Minute Hand. University of Massachusetts Press.ISBN 978-0-87023-570-2.
• — (1996).Music Minus One. New York City: Picador USA.ISBN 978-0-312-16944-2.
• — (1999).Happy Family: Poems. Picador USA.ISBN 978-0-312-20310-8.
• — (2008).A yes-or-no answer : poems. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.ISBN 978-0-547-00603-1.
• — (2012).That said : new and selected poems. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.ISBN 9780547687117.

• Catherine Cucinella, ed. (2002).Contemporary American women poets. Greenwood Press.ISBN 978-0-313-31783-5.
• Robert Pack, Jay Parini, ed. (2002)."Public Service is Rich Enough".Contemporary poetry of New England. UPNE.ISBN 978-0-87451-966-2.

• "Jane Shore and Dabney Stuart Poetry Reading", 10/23/2008, Library of Congress
• "Jane Shore on NPR", May 12, 2009,GW English News

• American women poets
• George Washington University faculty
• Goddard College alumni
• Harvard University faculty
• Living people
• People from Chevy Chase, Maryland
• Radcliffe College alumni
• The New Yorker people
• University of Hawaiʻi faculty
• University of Iowa alumni

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