Alabama Authors Directory

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Harry Moore

Hometown: Decatur, AL Lives in: Decatur, AL

Contact Information

  • Email: hmoore944@aol.com

Address:

    • 633 Jackson St. S.E.
      Decatur, AL 35601
      United States
  • Phone: (256) 278-1766
  • Preferred Contact Method: Email, Form on My Website

 

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About Harry Moore

Genres: Poetry

Available for: Readings

Bio: For four decades Harry taught English in Alabama community colleges, mostly at Calhoun Community College in Decatur. He holds degrees from Auburn, Rice University, and Middle Tennessee State.
Since retirement in 2009, he has published seven books of poems, most recently, We the People: Confessions of a Caucasian Southerner from Broadstone Books.
His poems have appeared in the Alabama Literary Review, South Carolina Review, Main Street Rag, Slipstream, Anglican Theological Review, Sow’s Ear …Read More Poetry Review, and other magazines and journals across the country.
In 2014, he received the Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers in New York. He lives with his wife, Cassandra, in Decatur, Alabama.

Works: Books:
What He Would Call Them, Finishing Line Press, 2013 (chapbook)
Time’s Fool: Love Poems, Mule on a Ferris Wheel Press, 2014 (chapbook)
Retreat: A Way Forward, Finishing Line Press, 2017 (chapbook)
Bearing the Farm Away, Kelsay Books, 2018 (full …Read More collection)
Beyond Paradise: The Unweeded Garden, Main Street Rag Publications, 2020 (chapbook)
Broken and Blended: Love’s Alchemy, Kelsay Books, 2021 (full collection)
We the People: Confessions of a Caucasian Southerner, Broadstone Books, 2024 (full collection)

Awards:

2014: Maureen Egan Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers

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