​Marianne Moore 2027, an in-person conference hosted by the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, follows the highly successful formats of previous Moore conferences (Penn State 2003, Houston 2015, Buffalo 2020, Stanford 2025) with a schedule of panels, round tables and workshops for a single audience over two and a half days. Exactly 100 years after Moore herself visited Cambridge, the purpose of the conference is to bring together an international and various group of readers with a strong predilection for thinking and writing about poetry, and put them to work newly and again on this singular, difficult, and discriminating poet. The schedule will take shape around readings between Marianne Moore and other writers. As well as revisiting the poet’s declared influences (Henry James, the minor prophets, and Hardy), contemporaries (Louise Bogan, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats), and successors (Elizabeth Bishop, Amy Clampitt, Ray Johnson, Kenneth Koch), the conference calls on the expertise of colleagues working in periods beyond modernist studies, so as to identify less likely kinships and foster unexpected matches. What would a scholar of medieval bestiaries see in her curated creatures?  How did Moore read Lincoln’s speeches? What does a Francophone listener hear in her translations? What do Moore’s notebooks tell us about her own eclectic reading habits? The Cambridge English Faculty has a long and distinguished history as a centre of excellence in poetry and poetics. This conference brings together more than thirty contributors including established Moore scholars, early-career colleagues, and postgraduate students working in and beyond modernisms, as well as newcomers to Moore with expertise in other periods and fields.