Amanda Moore’s debut collection of poetry, Requeening (HarperCollins/ECCO, 2021), was selected for the National Poetry Series by Ocean Vuong and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Moore’s poems, essays, and translations have appeared in journals and anthologies including Best New Poets, ZYZZYVA, Ploughshares, and Literary Hub. An editor and reader for Bull City Press, Moore runs writing workshops and community poetry classes and teaches high school English. She lives by the beach in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco.
Poetry
Winter 2025
Open Space Preserve
I hiked that place with no map, the pathsometimes elusive but finding me each time I reacheddespair. Manzanita marked my legs in scrollsof blood and scab, filled my socks with […]