Jane Shore

Jane Shore’s poetry has garnered accolades from critics and prestigious awards in her field. She is the author of six books of poems: Eye Level, winner of the 1977 Juniper Prize; The Minute Hand, awarded the 1986 Lamont Prize; Music Minus One, a finalist for the 1996 National Book Critic Circle Award; Happy Family (1999);  A Yes-or-No Answer (2008), winner of the 2010 Poets’ Prize and That Said, New and Selected Poems (2012). Shore writes poems that are “memorabilia; they cultivate the leisure and faceted pleasure of retrospection; they favor the miniature and the artifactual; they are tender toward kitsch,” to quote a reviewer in Poetry magazine. Shore produced her first mainstream poetry collection in 1977 and has published approximately one volume per decade since. Her interests, almost always autobiographical and pertinent to her cultural Jewish heritage, are, according to a Virginia Quarterly Review correspondent, “carefully constructed and restrained, in a voice that maintains a deceptively calm and even tone.”