Claudia Gary Annis

Richard Moore has published a novel, a book of literary criticism, and ten books of poetry, one of which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.  His fiction, essays, and more than 500 of his poems have been published in 80 magazines, including The New Yorker, Atlantic, Poetry, Harper’s, The American Poetry Review, and The Nation.  His translations of Latin and Greek classics have been published and performed.  His latest book of poetry, The Naked Scarecrow, is published by New Odyssey Press.
     Moore’s poetry shows great variety of form, tone, and content, but is unfailingly entertaining.   He hosts the Agape Poetry Series in Boston, and gives frequent readings, lectures and dramatic performances.
     A former pilot in the Air Force, Moore is a graduate of Yale University and has taught at Boston University, at Brandeis University (where he was the Fannie Hurst Visiting Professor of English), and at The New England Conservatory of Music.  He is currently teaching at Clark University.

Click here to visit Richard Moore’s website.
 

A sample of the poet’s work:

Click on one of the links below to hear the poem, as read by Richard during his OpenMike Poetry feature:
ASF audio ("streaming" audio, lower quality sound)   [alternate ASF audio]
MPEG-3 audio file (larger file, higher quality sound)
(more info on audio links)

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     Notes on the audio links:  The audio links for the poems lead to different file-format versions of the same audio content.  The "ASF audio" link will generate "streaming"-type audio which will download and play at the same time (no waiting!)  This seems to work best with Internet Explorer.  To play "ASF" files you'll need to have installed version 6 (or later) of the Microsoft media player, which can be downloaded from www.microsoft.com.
     With some browsers, clicking on the "ASF audio" link will still bring up a "Save As..." window (even after the version 6 Microsoft media player is installed.)  If this happens, use the "Save As..." window to pick a location on your hard drive to save the file (which will end in ".asx") into; then find the file with the "Windows Explorer" and double-click on it to download and play the content.  (Granted, this is not the most elegant work-around; but it's still faster than waiting for the entire audio download to finish before playing it.)
     The "MPEG-3 audio file" link allows you to download a higher-quality MPEG-3 version of the audio (but you have to wait until the download is complete before playing the content.)  The version 6 Microsoft media player will play MPEG-3 files.  The Winamp player will also play these.  (The smaller-sized "alternate ASF audio" files can also be played using MPEG-3 players.)
     The "ASF" file was generated using the Windows Media Encoder found in the Media Tools which can be downloaded from www.microsoft.com.