Rosalie Moore Explained

Genre:poetry
Birth Date:October 8, 1910
Birth Place:Oakland, California, US
Death Date:June 18, 2011
Death Place:Petaluma, California, US
Alma Mater:University of California, Berkeley
Notable Works:The Grasshopper's Man and Other Poems

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

Anthologies

Children's books

Play

External links

Notes and References

  1. 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 .
  2. News: The Bay Area's 'Activists' shook up poetry in the '50s. Cynthia Haven. September 4, 2005. The San Francisco Chronicle.
  3. 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 .
  4. 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.
  5. Web site: Archives West: Rosalie Moore papers, 1927-1986.
  6. 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.