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

• 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 ^[6]

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

• Guide to the Rosalie Moore Papers at the University of Oregon
• Book: Learned and leaved: a tribute to Rosalie Moore. Peter L. Sharkey. Marin Poetry Center. 1986. 978-0-941125-00-0 .

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.