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Sister Arts
Austin, TX
Lisa L. Moore writes books, essays, and poems about literature, gardens, gender, sexuality, and whatever else takes her fancy.
Interests: Poetry, women's and queer art and writing, garden history and design.
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It Is An Apple: An Interview With Judy Grahn
"The apple is the menstruation of the apple tree," and other gems from famed poet Judy Grahn, in my latest LA Review of Books piece. Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2013 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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The Dream of a Common Bookstore
I will now be posting links to my feminist poetry column in the Los Angeles Review of Books here on Sister Arts. My hope is that this will make it easier for those who want to follow the column to keep up. You can sign up for my RSS feed,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2013 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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Little Sister Arts Grows Up
Hello everyone, just wanted to let you know about my new column in the Los Angeles Review of Books, called (what else) "Sister Arts." Queer feminist essays about poetry. See you there! Continue reading
Posted Feb 11, 2013 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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Goodbye Sister Arts Blog
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After a long blog silence, I have decided to shut down the Sister Arts blog. For about a year I had a wonderful time writing this and really appreciate all the virtual and real-life conversations and opportunities it engendered. But over the last six months my writing time has been... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2012 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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Torture Gardens
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Mark Scroggin's poems are whiplashing back and forth inside my skull. He calls them, in his new book, Torture Garden, "Naked City Pastorelles." (Buy Mark's book here, via Small Press Distribution.) They are perfectly shaped, formally elegant little explosions of violence, despair, wit, and observation, each contained within a strict... Continue reading
Posted Jan 23, 2012 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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Breaking News: Captain Kirk's Chair
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Valuable feedback from Jacob McMurray of EMP, upon whose probity I cast risible doubt in my last post. In coming up with a picture of Captain Kirk's command chair from the Starship Enterprise to illustrate the claim that said chair formed the core of Paul Allen's sci-fi collection at the... Continue reading
Posted Jan 14, 2012 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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EMP: A Museum of Hendrix, Nirvana, and Star Trek. Seriously.
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I was in Seattle this weekend as part of the great annual migration of literature professors known as the Modern Language Association. This year the convention organizers planned a couple of outings to local places of interest--a first, as far as I can remember. I've always been a fan of... Continue reading
Posted Jan 9, 2012 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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Versatile Blogger Awards!
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Many thanks to Feminema, who just nominated me for the Versatile Blogger Awards alongside such icons as Comradde PhysioProffe, Historiann, and The Ms. Education of Shelby Knox. It's an honor to be in their company. The conditions of the award, to which I happily submit, are as follows: Nominate 15... Continue reading
Posted Jan 4, 2012 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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Mouth Carved Shut: Ekphrastic Poems
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I wrote last month about the road trip I took with some friends to visit the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and participate in the ArtLines Juried Competition. This week I've been working on those poems. Here are three of them, along with the works that inspired them. ANTHROPOMORPHIC HARP... Continue reading
Posted Dec 29, 2011 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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The Swan of Litchfield
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This week's project (already past deadline!) is to write a book proposal for a new edition of poems by Anna Seward. Here's an excerpt, followed by one of my favorite poems by the writer who made her small English city famous in the eighteenth century as "The Swan of Litchfield."... Continue reading
Posted Dec 19, 2011 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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Remembering Stourhead
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[End-of-semester dry spell! I'm re-posting an oft-visited story from my summer's garden tourism. More new posts soon....] Stourhead Park is one of the greatest eigheenth-century English gardens, designed by the wealthy landowner Henry Hoare ("the Magnificent Hoare," a nickname that gave my students lots of giggles) after his return from... Continue reading
Posted Dec 9, 2011 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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If This Were Not A Poem But An Actual Garden: Louise Glück
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I am still vibrating with excitement after reading this book. For her titles alone (The Wild Iris, The Garden, Mock Orange), Glück has been on my list of botanical poets to peruse. The fact that she's won every major literary prize in the country, including the National Book Award for... Continue reading
Posted Nov 28, 2011 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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Poems in the Garden: Little Sparta
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Today's post was inspired by a comment from a U.K. reader, Jerome Fletcher. Mr. Fletcher pointed me to the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who first gained renown in the 1960s as a practitioner of concrete poetry. Concrete poetry is the kind in which the layout and typography are part... Continue reading
Posted Nov 18, 2011 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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Houston Ekphrasis
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Ekphrasis is the ultimate sister arts mode: art about art. On Sunday I talked my friends Allen and Susannah into a road trip to Houston to visit the museum district and take part in a poetry contest sponsored by the Houston reading series Public Poetry. I love museums but so... Continue reading
Posted Nov 11, 2011 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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If Gardens Are Art, Who Is The Artist?
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Yesterday I had the very great pleasure of participating in a panel discussion on my book, Sister Arts. Several of my graduate and undergraduate students were there, including Max, an especially engaged member of my lower-division Introduction to Creative Writing class. Max asked the first question and it was probably... Continue reading
Posted Nov 2, 2011 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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Fifties Experimental Film: A Glimpse of the Garden
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My friend Chad Bennett sent me a link to A Glimpse of the Garden, a wild little movie by the mid-twentieth-century experimental filmmaker Marie Menken. Born in 1909 in Brooklyn, Menken was associated with the fifties underground film scene in New York that also included Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, and... Continue reading
Posted Oct 24, 2011 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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On Phillis Wheatley's Imagination
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Today I had the pleasure of hearing Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley give a talk on the voudon loa Ezili, a force of nature that protects femininity and creativity, as an epistemology for understanding Caribbean genders and transgenders. I have been working slowly and with great pleasure through Tinsley's book Thiefing Sugar:... Continue reading
Posted Oct 17, 2011 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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To the Survival of Roaches: More Black Nature
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One of the many things I appreciate about Camille T. Dungy's anthology Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry is its attention to pests. Of course, there is plenty of beautiful pastoral writing in the book, like this excerpt from Richard Wright's 12 Million Black Voices: "The land... Continue reading
Posted Oct 10, 2011 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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Black Nature
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I've been longing to read and write about (and write poems with) Camille T. Dungy's anthology, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry ever since Dungy came to Austin as the guest of the Pro Arts Collective this spring. I've finally run through my backlog of English garden... Continue reading
Posted Oct 3, 2011 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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Gertrude Jekyll Garden at Lindisfarne Castle
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We had spent most of the morning waiting in an Edinburgh queue for our rental car. Then Milo had to go to the bathroom so we stopped in Dunbar on the Scottish coast, where we enjoyed the self-proclaimed "Best Loo of 2010" facilities. In addition to the loo (which really... Continue reading
Posted Sep 28, 2011 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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Holyrood Palace Garden
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Plodding down the rain-soaked Royal Mile in Edinburgh in August, we four drought-battered Texans could not have been happier. We toured the palace best known as the royal residence of Mary, Queen of Scots, and then the skies cleared just in time for Max and I to walk through the... Continue reading
Posted Sep 17, 2011 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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Yorkshire Cottage Garden
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In an earlier post, I commented on the beauty and ubiquity of everyday gardens in England--what are known as "cottage gardens." The art of gardening is so widespread and well understood that gardens that look spectacular to North American eyes are seen as nothing special in the U.K.--just what anybody... Continue reading
Posted Sep 12, 2011 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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Harry Potter's Garden
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Travelling with ten- and seven-year-old boys, you come to see the U.K. as one giant Harry Potter theme park. In Oxford, you can do a Harry Potter tour of colleges used as film locations. In Edinburgh, you can sit in the back room of the Elephant Cafe and gaze at... Continue reading
Posted Aug 31, 2011 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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Ignoring the Path of Virtue at Stourhead
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Stourhead Park is one of the greatest eigheenth-century English gardens, designed by the wealthy landowner Henry Hoare ("the Magnificent Hoare," a nickname that gave my students lots of giggles) after his return from the Grand Tour of Europe. Like so many other Grand Touring aristocrats, he had fallen in love... Continue reading
Posted Aug 4, 2011 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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Jane Austen's Gardens
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Here is a picture of me in JANE AUSTEN'S BEDROOM. It's hard to imagine a greater thrill. I checked out my first Austen novel from the library at Milton Williams Junior High School in Calgary, wrote an essay on Sense and Sensibility at university that became my first academic conference... Continue reading
Posted Jul 31, 2011 at Sister Arts: Gardens, Poems, Art, Community
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