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Great post at the LOC blog Bibliomania about Marianne Moore being asked by a Ford exec to help name a new series of cars, c. 1950s.

(They did not go with her suggestions, lol.)

https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2026/05/20/marianne-moore-and-the-utopian-turtletop/

#Poetry #MarianneMoore #Bookstodon

Marianne Moore and the Utopian Turtletop | Bibliomania

In 1955 the Ford Motor Company solicited American poet Marianne Moore to devise a name for a new line of cars in development. The exchange of letters between Ms. Moore and the executives first came to light in an April 13, 1957, issue of The New Yorker. The Pierpont Morgan Library printed reproductions of the letters in a monograph in 1958.

The Library of Congress

"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence." 10 Marianne Moore Quotes:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/11/15-november-marianne-moore-quotes.html

#Quotes #MarianneMoore #Birthanniversary

15 November: Marianne Moore Quotes

Today, 10 quotes from American poet Marianne Moore, born 15 November 1887. Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself...

Topical Tens

We do not admire what we cannot understand.
-- Marianne Moore

#Wisdom #Quotes #MarianneMoore #Understanding

#Photography #Panorama #GoblinValley #Utah

University at Buffalo: UB scholar receives $300,000 NEH grant to expand Marianne Moore digital archive. “Cristanne Miller, PhD, professor emerita of English in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, has received a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to expand her work on the Marianne Moore Digital Archive (MMDA) by adding another 12 notebooks […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/07/university-at-buffalo-ub-scholar-receives-300000-neh-grant-to-expand-marianne-moore-digital-archive/

University at Buffalo: UB scholar receives $300,000 NEH grant to expand Marianne Moore digital archive | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

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We do not admire what we cannot understand.
-- Marianne Moore

#Wisdom #Quotes #MarianneMoore #Understanding

#Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota

Door J.Bernlef vertaalde #poëzie van #MarianneMoore en #ElizabethBishop, uit de bundel 'Alfabet op de rug gezien.' Die zal nog wel vaker worden opengeslagen.
Weekend met vertaalde #poëzie voor de boeg. Vandaag #WHAuden en #MarianneMoore. Vertaling is van J.Bernlef.