Rosalie Moore
Rosalie Moore 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
- 1950, 1951 Guggenheim Fellowships
Works
The Grasshopper's Man and Other Poems, Yale University Press, 1949Year 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, 1954Whistle PunkThe Boy Who Got Mailed, Coward-McCann, 1957Big Rig, Coward-McCann, 1959The Department Store GhostTickley and the Fox, Lantern Press, 1962The Hippopotamus That Wanted to Be a Baby Lantern Press.Play
- ''The Calydonian Boar Hunt.''