Joy Moore lives in Tennessee, where, for the last fifteen years, she has taught un- dergraduate writing and interdisciplinary courses, designed and managed two cof- fee shops, and led a music and arts venue. Her poems and prose have appeared in the Best Spiritual Literature anthology and such journals as 32 Poems, Hunger Mountain, Greensboro Review, Spiritus, and Prairie Schooner, where she won the Glenna Luschei Award.
My mother’s grand piano, a shiny black Yamaha, was one of the few constants during my childhood. It accompanied us as we moved to new houses, cities, and states, each time settling into its own room. Every day, my mother would sit on her matching upholstered bench to practice while I played beneath it on […]
Joy Moore observes a bird begging for food in the wrong place.
Joy Moore writes of loss and its quiet shifts.
