Rosalie Moore

Rosalie Moore (October 8, 1910 in Oakland, California – June 18, 2001 in Petaluma, California) was an American poet.

Education

She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley magna cum laude with a B.A. in 1932; with an MA in 1934.

Career

From 1935 to 1937 she worked for radio station KLX, and then the Census Bureau. In 1937, she attended the poetry-writing classes of Lawrence Hart.

She joined the group of poets known as the Activists.

From 1965 to 1976, she taught at the College of Marin. Kay Ryan was her student. Her work has been published in Accent, Furioso, The New Yorker, and Saturday Review. Her papers are held at University of Oregon library.

Personal life

She married William L. Brown in 1942; they had three daughters.

Awards

• 1938 University of Chicago's Charles H. Sergel award for poetic drama with her play The Boar
• 1943 Albert Bender Award in literature
• 1949 Yale Series Younger Poet Award for The Grasshopper's Man (originally titled "Journeys Toward Center")
• 1950, 1951 Guggenheim Fellowships

Works

• The Grasshopper's Man and Other Poems, Yale University Press, 1949
• Year of the Children, 1977 a book of poems dealing with the Children's Crusade in Europe in 1212 A.D.

Anthologies

Children's books

• The Forest Fireman, Coward-McCann, 1954
• Whistle Punk
• The Boy Who Got Mailed, Coward-McCann, 1957
• Big Rig, Coward-McCann, 1959
• The Department Store Ghost
• Tickley and the Fox, Lantern Press, 1962
• The Hippopotamus That Wanted to Be a Baby Lantern Press.

Play

• The Calydonian Boar Hunt.

References

External links

• Guide to the Rosalie Moore Papers at the University of Oregon