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