A New PCC Writing Residency Honors a Forgotten Oregon Poet
Carolyn Moore wrote thousands of poems in her lifetime. Most of them are about to be published for the first time.
By
Aurora Biggers
2/26/2021 at 12:30am
Carolyn Moore, namesake of PCCâs upcoming Carolyn Moore Writing Residency
Late one fall, Oregon-born poet Carolyn Moore found herself wandering through the past life of Emily Dickinson. She was walking the formerly cobbled streets of Amherst, Massachusetts at Smith College, working on one of her numerous graduate degrees, visiting the âswelling in the groundâ of Dickinsonâs grave, and spending days in the bookstore where Dickinsonâs poetry now resides alongside the work of âdead white guys,â as Moore once penned in a witty letter to the late poet.Â
Norwich University professor publishes “A Trick of Living,” a book of poetry and sketches By NU Office of Communications December 10, 2020
NORTHFIELD, Vt. Cara Armstrong, director of Norwich University’s School of Architecture+Art and Design+Build Collaborative has published “A Trick of Living,” a book of digital sketches and poems.
The digital sketching adventure began for Armstrong, who also teaches classes in design and architecture,
when she was issued an iPad as part of Norwich’s iPad initiative in 2019. Posts of her sketches on Facebook drew a modest following and the attention of Big Table Publishing Co. Acquisitions Editor Robin Stratton, who asked Armstrong whether she had thought of making a book.