Rosalie Moore Explained
Rosalie Moore (October 8, 1910 in Oakland, California – June 18, 2001 in Petaluma, California) was an American poet.
Life
She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley magna cum laude with a B.A. in 1932; with an MA in 1934. 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.[1] [2]
She married William L. Brown in 1942; they had three daughters.
From 1965 to 1976, she taught at the College of Marin. Kay Ryan was her student.[3] Her work has been published in Accent, Furioso, The New Yorker,[4] and Saturday Review. Her papers are held at University of Oregon library.[5]
Awards
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.
- Book: Of Singles and Doubles. Woolmer/Brotherson. 1979. 978-0-913506-07-3 .
- Book: Gutenberg in Strasbourg. Floating Island Publications. 1995. 978-0-912449-52-4 .
Anthologies
- Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=tx1I5Z3U5DIC&q=Rosalie+Moore&pg=PA85 . Still Without Life; Shipwreck; Ripeness is Rapid . California poetry: from the Gold Rush to the present. Dana Gioia . Chryss Yost . Jack Hicks. Heyday Books. 2004. 978-1-890771-72-0 .
- Book: American Poetry: E.E. Cummings to May Swenson. registration. Robert Hass. Library of America. 2000. 978-1-883011-78-9 .
- Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=OsVctDpFH6IC&q=Rosalie+Moore&pg=PA188. Height. The Addison Street anthology: Berkeley's poetry walk. Robert Hass . Jessica Fisher. Heyday Books. 2004. 978-1-890771-94-2 .
- Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=bySFCkIjBcUC&q=Rosalie+Moore&pg=PA10. Catalogue. Earshot. David Kitchen. Heinemann. 1988. 978-0-435-14032-8 .
- Book: Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and its Future. Science Fiction and the Main Stream . Reginald Bretnor. Coward-McCann. 1953. 52-11714 .
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.
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Rosalie Moore "Activist". https://books.google.com/books?id=gAmTzUsxQWgC&pg=PA96 . 96 . Cold War Poetry. Edward Brunner. University of Illinois Press. 2004. 978-0-252-07217-8 .
- News: The Bay Area's 'Activists' shook up poetry in the '50s. Cynthia Haven. September 4, 2005. The San Francisco Chronicle.
- Web site: Poetry . 2009-12-15 . 2010-07-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100714132508/http://www.poetrymagazine.org/magazine/0705/comment_171211.html . dead .
- Web site: Search : The New Yorker . www.newyorker.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121016203739/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/rosalie_moore/search?contributorName=rosalie%20moore . 2012-10-16.
- Web site: Archives West: Rosalie Moore papers, 1927-1986.
- Web site: Rosalie Moore Brown - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . www.gf.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604004445/http://www.gf.org/fellows/1899-rosalie-moore-brown . 2011-06-04.