Rosalie Moore (October 8, 1910 in

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– June 18, 2001 in Petaluma, California) was an American poet.

Education

She graduated from the

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''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

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. 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

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was her student. Her work has been published in ''Accent'', ''Furioso'', ''The New Yorker'', and ''Saturday Review''. Her papers are held at

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library.

Personal life

She married William L. Brown in 1942; they had three daughters.

Awards

* 1938

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'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") *

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, 1951

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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. * *

Anthologies

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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

External links

Guide to the Rosalie Moore Papers at the University of Oregon
* 1910 births 2001 deaths Writers from Oakland, California University of California, Berkeley alumni American women poets Yale Younger Poets winners 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers {{US-1910s-poet-stub