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Harry Moore
A longtime Alabama poet and retired English professor, he writes reflective, plainspoken poems shaped by Southern life, memory, and questions of history and identity.
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About the author
Harry V. Moore is an American poet and professor emeritus of English who taught for more than three decades at John C. Calhoun Community College in Decatur, Alabama. His work has been recognized with honors including the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award, and he has also served as an assistant editor at POEM magazine.
His published books include Broken & Blended, Convergence, and We the People: Confessions of a Caucasian Southerner. Across his poetry, he is known for bringing a thoughtful Southern perspective to questions of race, place, and personal conscience.
Moore's writing is rooted in lived experience rather than showiness, which gives it a direct, approachable voice. For listeners who enjoy poetry that is reflective, humane, and closely tied to regional history, his work offers both intimacy and moral weight.