Today's poem:
A Jelly-Fish
- by Marianne Moore
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/818750656713195520/a-jelly-fish?source=share
Today's poem:
A Jelly-Fish
- by Marianne Moore
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/818750656713195520/a-jelly-fish?source=share
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/

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.
Poetry: I Too, Dislike It
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/07/marianne-moore-poetry/
Marianne Moore on the There Elements of Persuasive Writing
"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence." 10 Marianne Moore Quotes:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/11/15-november-marianne-moore-quotes.html
We do not admire what we cannot understand.
-- Marianne Moore
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 […]
We do not admire what we cannot understand.
-- Marianne Moore
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