The Marianne Moore Digital Archive

Established in 2015, the Marianne Moore Digital Archive (MMDA) makes digital reproductions and transcriptions of Moore’s notebooks easily and freely accessible to scholarly, classroom, and non-academic readers for the first time. The notebook transcriptions are supported by annotations that contextualize Moore’s writing and life, including citations to the original source texts she invokes, and an image-text linking feature that makes it easy to move back and forth between the facsimile and the transcription. The digital editions of the notebooks are supported by a growing collection of related materials, including a glossary, an interactive timeline of Moore's life and publications, and searchable reproductions of the now hard-to-find Marianne Moore Newsletter. This chapter articulates the usefulness of the MMDA to scholars, teachers, and students of Moore’s life and poetry, giving examples of how the various functionalities of the digital platform both facilitates new contributions to Moore studies and enlivens our connections to literature and literary history.