Books
Full Worm Moon
Winner, Woodrow Hall Top Shelf Award
Honorable Mention, Book of the Year Award, Conference on Christianity & Literature
Includes Five Poems Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
“What if the beautiful day is over?” wonders Julie Moore in her shattering new collection. . . . And indeed, poems about the end of a marriage wring the reader. Cycling through a year’s full moons, these poems bear witness to ridicule, violence, and pitilessness. But wait–just as prayer can exorcise broken promises, so too can the natural world’s rising sap and irises mirror and enable human healing.
Anya Silver
Particular Scandals
Particular Scandals a Dayton, Ohio, Must-Read Book of 2014
Broad in scope—theological, ecological, and personal—and acutely particular in details—witnessed and lived—the affecting poems in Particular Scandals explore how one endures suffering, avoiding the clichés of both bitterness and transcendence.
The world’s stubborn strangeness, its painful loveliness, and the search for traces of God amidst its people and creatures—Julie L. Moore braids all of these obsessions beautifully together into these luminous, resonant, unflinching poems, and somehow finds hope for this world among it all.
JEFF GUNDY
Slipping Out of Bloom
The quiet lyrics of Julie Moore’s Slipping Out of Bloom are infused with a sense of wonder at the world’s minute beauty, unfolding their observations and revelations, as their forms / like phantoms / blur between earth / and air.
“What poetry can be made of [those] sufferings none of us want to live the first time around? Fine poetry, it turns out, that offers neither a romantic whitewash nor despairing doubt, but a series of beautiful particulars that offer clarity, beauty, and ‘amens’ in the midst of a world unlikely to change. Readers will be freshly charged to see joy in the scandal of living.”
Leslie Leyland Fields
Events
Pensive Journal Issue Launch
Wednesday, November 16th at 7pm ETI’ve been invited to read my poem “Mystic Failure,” published in the fifth issue of Pensive Journal, when it will debut it on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston, where it’s hosted. You can attend in person there in the Sacred Space, on the second floor of Ell Hall (360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115) or via zoom at https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/99808197645. Join us!
Book me to read in-person or over Zoom through my contact page!
Writing
VERSE DAILY & POETRY DAILY FEATURES
- “Bathing Beauties,” Web Weekly Feature, Verse Daily, October 17, 2022, from Quartet
- “Four days after Mother’s Day,” Poem of the Day, Verse Daily, August 24, 2018 (from Full Worm Moon)
- “Clifton Gorge,” Poem of the Day, Verse Daily, September 4, 2013 (from Particular Scandals)
- “Clifton Gorge,” Poem of the Day, Poetry Daily, August 29, 2013
- “Joy,” September 11, 2011 (from Slipping Out of Bloom)
- “The Painted Lady and the Thistle,” Web Weekly Feature, Verse Daily, May 2, 2011 (from Pirene’s Fountain and appears in Particular Scandals)
OTHER FEATURES
- “Recovery,” Poem of the Week, The Missouri Review Online (January 23, 2011)
- Many Poems featured on Your Daily Poem. The poems can be read in YDR archives
- “Full Thunder Moon” featured on Image Journal‘s Good Letters Poetry Friday blog, with reflection written by poet Tania Runyan (my poem originally appeared in Issue 88 of Image)
- “Moon When All Things Ripen,” Autumn Sky Poetry
ANTIRACIST WRITING (BLACK LIVES MATTER!)
Poems
- “American Vertigo” in Minyan Magazine
- *”White Women’s Tears” in Flying Island *nominated for a Pushcart Prize
- “Devil’s Backbone” in Tipton Poetry Journal on pp. 48-49 (Summer 2022)
- “Ode to Ebedmelech, the Ethiopian Eunuch” in Fathom Magazine
- “Somewhere in Indiana” in Rise Up Review
- “Chorus (of Trees),” in JMWW
- “Suffer the Little Children” in Saint Katherine Review (January 24, 2022)
- “Underground Railroad” in The Other Journal (December 2021)
- “Hush Harbor” in Ekstasis (November 2021)
- “Ode to Cariol Horne” and “Tornado Siren” in New Verse News (April 20 & 30, 2021)
- “Lesson on Nostalgia” in Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts (Spring 2021)
- “Working Backwards” in Tipton Poetry Journal, on pp. 15-16 (Winter 2021)
- “Bony Labyrinth” in Bearings Online
- “American Diptych” and “Amid Interruptions, Samuel A. Cartwright Pontificates about Drapetomania to a Friend over Fine Dining, New Orleans, June, 1851,” African American Review (Vol. 53.4/Winter 2020)
- *“The Color White” in Tipton Poetry Journal, on pp. 6-9 (Fall 2020) *nominated for a Pushcart Prize
- “The National Memorial for Peace and Justice” in Image Journal (Spring 2020)
Essays
- “Learning to Long for the Beloved Community,” in Christianity Today (Aug. 10, 2020)
- “Silent Night,” in Relief Journal (2018)
THE PROPHETESS POEMS
- “The Prophetess (Isaiah’s Wife),” Reformed Journal
- “Miriam Contemplates Her Condition” & “Jezebel Calls Herself a Prophet,” Ekstasis
- “Huldah Prophesies” and “Rachel” in Amethyst Review
- “Abigail Grows Brave” and *“Ode to Deborah (Mother of Israel),” in American Diversity Report (Dec. 2020 & Jan. 2021) *nominated for a Pushcart Prize
- “The False Prophetess Noadiah” (January 31, 2022) and “Anna” (December 3, 2020) in Vita Poetica
OTHER POEMS ONLINE
- “Bathing Beauties,” in Quartet
- “Nurse in Need,” in Thimble Literary Magazine
- “Washing My Daughter’s Hair” and fourteen other poems in The Christian Century
- “Photograph, circa 1986” in Whale Road Review
- “Uneasy Peace” and “Trail Beside a Wetland” in Gyroscope Review (spring 2021)
- “Beloved Son” in ASCENT (September 25, 2020)
- “Canary” in One (Issue 21, June 2020)
- “Speed Reading” in Cumberland River Review (Issue 9-2)
- “Pairing” in Valparaiso Poetry Review (Fall/Winter 2018-2019)
- “New Year’s Eve” in Whale Road Review (Winter 2019)
- “I never met a flower that yelled at me,” New Ohio Review (Fall 2017)
- “Lump” in Alaska Quarterly Review
- “Clear Water” in ASCENT
- “In Which the Magpie Resurrects the Voice of Henry David Thoreau” in The Ekphrastic Review
- “Following the Light” in The Ekphrastic Review
- “In a parallel universe” in The Cresset
- “Nest in a Winter Tree” in Cumberland River Review
- “Big Basin Sagebrush” in the Fall 2016/Winter 2017 issue of Valparaiso Poetry Review
- “Full Hunger Moon” in Issue 5 of Whale Road Review (Winter 2017)
- “Four Days after Mother’s Day” in The National Poetry Review
- “Ode to the Wild Cherry” and “Walking on the Roof ” in Redheaded Stepchild
- “Cooper’s Hawks, Santa Fe National Forest,” in Clementine Unbound
- “Coming Close” and “Sightseeing” reprinted in Canary
- “Following the Light” in ASCENT.
- “There Is No Violence Here” and “Ohio,” reprinted in Verse-Virtual (May 2015)
- “No Heaven” in The 55 Project (July 2014)
- “Molasses” in Cumberland River Review (July 2013)
- “Art Affair on the Square” and “Yellow Springs, Ohio” in Flights (2013)
- “Cryoseism” and “Vessels” in ducts.org (Summer 2013)
- “Barn Burning” in Valparaiso Poetry Review (Spring/Summer 2013)
- “This is the landscape left” and “After Watering” in Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments(spring/summer 2012)
- Three Poems, “Amen and Amen,” “Harnessing Infinity,” and “Particular Scandals,” in Poemeleon (“The Open Issue,” Summer/Fall 2011)
- Two Poems, “Backfire,” and “Voice,” in Switched-on-Gutenberg (“Accidental,” Issue 17)
- “The Grass Grows Ordinary” in Conte: A Journal of Narrative Writing (Issue 6.2, February 2011)
- Two poems, “The Problem with School” and “Windfall,” in Verse Wisconsin (Issue 103, Summer 2010; “The Problem with School” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
- “Press Release: 10 June 2010” in Poets for Living Waters
- Three Poems, “Grand Entrance,” “Pessimist,” and “Reflection” in Orion Headless
- Two poems, “Does soil hurt” and “Inspiration,” with audio, in Terrain.org (Spring/Summer 2010, No. 25)
- “One December Evening” in Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters (Spring 2010)
- “Dirty Nails” and “The Slip” in ducts.org (December 2010)
- “Going Home” in Halfway Down the Stairs
- “Buck” and “Evolution” in Apple Valley Review (Winter 2008)
- “Afterlife” in the Valparaiso Poetry Review (Fall 2008)
ONLINE REVIEWS OF MY BOOKS
- Review: Full Worm Moon in Valparaiso Poetry Review
- Review: Full Worm Moon in New Pages
- Review: Particular Scandals in Christianity and Literature
- Review: Particular Scandals in Ruminate
- Lynn Domina Reviews Particular Scandals
- Ed Davis Reviews Julie L. Moore’s Particular Scandals in Meredith Sue Willis’s Books for Readers #164
- Featured Book, Blogalicious, Poet Diane Lockward’s Blog
INTERVIEWS ONLINE
- “Creative Lives,” Ruminate Magazine, with Melissa Reese Poulin
BLOGS
- My Writing Process Blog Tour, Writer Ed Davis’s Blog (August 18)
- Journey into Poetry, tweetspeak: the best in poetry and poetic things
- Julie Moore’s Next Big Thing, Poet Molly Spencer’s Blog (February 11, 2013)
- Poet Julie L. Moore Talks Writing, Reading, and Inspiration, The Writing Center at PCCC (September 2013)
WRITING CENTER PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Article, “Designing Tutor Guides to Enhance Effectiveness Across Disciplines and with Special Demographics,” The Writing Lab Newsletter, December 2009/January 2010, with CU consultants Erin SanGregory and Sarah Matney and OSU Tutor Julie Morris. Accessible at https://wlnjournal.org/archives/v34/34.4-5.pdf and cited in Catherine Savini’s “An Alternative Approach to Bridging Disciplinary Divides,” The Writing Lab Newsletter, March/April 2011 at https://wlnjournal.org/archives/v35/35.7-8.pdf.
OTHER SITES OF INTEREST
- Collegeville Institute
- The Glen Workshop
- Festival of Faith and Writing
- Finishing Line Press
- WordTech Editions
- The Poiema Poetry Series at Cascade Books
My Story
I grew up in Moorestown, New Jersey, and transformed from Jersey Girl to Heartland Lover when I came to college in rural, southwestern Ohio, in the early 1980s. I earned my B.A. in English and then earned my M.A. in English at the University of Dayton. I subsequently taught for ten years at our nation’s oldest private, historically black liberal arts college (HBCU), Wilberforce University.
I later returned to my alma mater, Cedarville University, where I taught for 18 years. I left CU after the school instituted a censorship policy against faculty protests, a departure I’ve written about at Dr. William Trollinger’s excellent forum for scholarly conversations about Christianity, culture, politics, and higher education, Righting America.
I now direct the Writing Center at Taylor University and teach in the English Department there. Located in Upland, Indiana, I’ve found a home in Taylor, which is a place that fosters open discourse as it likewise integrates our faith in intentional community. Taylor also boasts some fantastic writers, including my colleague, Dan Bowman.
But back to my writing story! I spent my childhood years filling spiral notebooks with poetry and stories. Despite feeling “called” to write, I became sidetracked by the world of academia and a genuine enjoyment for—as well as the work load required by—teaching. In my mid-thirties, however, I realized I might die without ever fulfilling my dream of writing a book.
Panic-driven and poetry-inspired, I began to read every contemporary poet I could get my hands on. And I kept reading. In 2005, I also participated in the Antioch Writers’ Workshop (AWW), which greatly expanded my creative thinking and writing skills. I’ve also participated in Image Journal‘s Glen Workshop the last few summers, always an enriching experience for me. I consider every writer I read a mentor and the hours spent reading my life-long education.
Much of my work explores “place” in its broadest sense: Some poems revel in the wonder of creation or bemoan the damages it’s sustained, both here in the Midwest and across the globe. Other poems explore the place of faith amid great pain–and the necessary place of pain amid faith. Most recently, my poetry focuses on themes of anti-racism and the devastating consequences of whiteness.
The poetic exploration of such themes yields an abundance of questions and an abundance of discovery, including the need to confess our nation’s evils and establish a just society. These are the daunting themes my poetry addresses. And every time I begin to write a poem, intimidation sits on my shoulder, whispering in my ear, “Who do you think you are? This is beyond you. Don’t even try.”
Let’s Get in Touch
Invitations to read at your school, cafe, library, or festival are welcome! I do readings in-person and online via Zoom, and I can teach poetry workshops, too.
I also offer consultations on Writing Center work in three specific areas: how to develop a Writing Center at your school, organization, or business; how to train peer tutors; and how to pursue Critical Language Awareness (CLA) in your Writing Center.
You can contact me by using the form below
or by writing me at
Taylor University
236 W. Reade Ave.
Upland, IN 46989
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