Rosalie Moore

Rosalie Moore, Gertrude Elizabeth 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 have three daughters and three grandchildren living in Marin County.

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.
• Of Singles and Doubles. Woolmer/Brotherson. 1979. ISBN 978-0-913506-07-3.
• Gutenberg in Strasbourg. Floating Island Publications. 1995. ISBN 978-0-912449-52-4.

Anthologies

• Dana Gioia; Chryss Yost; Jack Hicks, eds. (2004). "Still Without Life; Shipwreck; Ripeness is Rapid". California poetry: from the Gold Rush to the present. Heyday Books. ISBN 978-1-890771-72-0.
• Robert Hass, ed. (2000). American Poetry: E.E. Cummings to May Swenson. Library of America. ISBN 978-1-883011-78-9.
• Robert Hass; Jessica Fisher, eds. (2004). "Height". The Addison Street anthology: Berkeley's poetry walk. Heyday Books. ISBN 978-1-890771-94-2.
• David Kitchen, ed. (1988). "Catalogue". Earshot. Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-435-14032-8.
• Reginald Bretnor, ed. (1953). "Science Fiction and the Main Stream [sic]". Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and its Future. 52-11714: Coward-McCann.CS1 maint: location (link)

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

1. Edward Brunner (2004). "Rosalie Moore "Activist"". Cold War Poetry. University of Illinois Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-252-07217-8.
2. Cynthia Haven (September 4, 2005). "The Bay Area's 'Activists' shook up poetry in the '50s". The San Francisco Chronicle.
3. http://www.poetrymagazine.org/magazine/0705/comment_171211.html
4. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/rosalie_moore/search?contributorName=rosalie%20moore
5. http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv32155
6. http://www.gf.org/fellows/1899-rosalie-moore-brown

External links

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