Julie L. Moore is Associate Professor of English and Writing Center Director at Taylor University in Indiana. She is the author of three previous books of poetry, including Particular Scandals, which also appeared in The Poiema Poetry Series.

Other poems by Julie L. Moore in Verse Daily:
September 5, 2013:   "Clifton Gorge" "Balsam floods the woods..."
September 11, 2011:   "Joy" "Fireflies flashing over hip-high corn..."

Books by Julie L. Moore:

Other poems on the web by Julie L. Moore:
Three poems
"Full flower moon"
"Blood Moon"
Two poems
"Afterlife"
Two poems
"Coming Close"
"Lump"

Julie L. Moore's Website.

Julie L. Moore on Twitter.

About Full Worm Moon:

"Full Worm Moon calls to mind both the cycle of monthly full moons that structures this collection, and the change that arrives in the loosening of the earth at the end of winter. . . Moore's attention to details allows the most ordinary of moments to tip, without the slightest poetic willfulness, into the extraordinary. And, equally tuned to life's harshness and life's beneficence, Moore's Full Worm Moon finds a way to bless 'this place [we] wander through' even as life's sorrows are endured."
—Robert Cording

"In a lyric voice infused with Julie L. Moore's own enduring faith, this collection mines the ruins of a longtime marriage and a woman's solo journey towards restoration. These marvelous poems return to the locus of changing seasons, marital strife, and love—in the darkness of the fallibly human overturned by the eternal brightness of the divine. . . Here is a remarkable book, in all its graceful beauty and savagery, to savor one syllable at a time: 'Dusk lifts the light from view/I know this first-hand/then hides it like a key beneath a stone."
—Karen An-hwei Lee

"The full moon rises each month throughout this moving collection, shining down on 'the gritty corridors/of [a] long marriage,' as we watch it painfully unravel. . . Because the book ends with 'as you take each successive step,' we know that she's safe on her journey, a path she didn't choose, a woman newly and bravely alone. Beautifully crafted and artfully wrought, these poems will sear themselves on your memory long after you close the book."
—Barbara Crooker