Hallie Moore, Poet

Hallie Moore is a retired English instructor who has lived and taught English classes for college, high school, and various workshops to students in the U.S., Brazil, Singapore, and the U.K. A graduate of Stanford University (B.A., M.A., Phi Beta Kappa) and Antioch- Los Angeles University (MFA), her poems are published in a variety of literary journals.

Her previous poetry collections include So Many Gods (winner of the Blue Light Poetry Prize, 2012), The Husband Papers, and most recently I Want to Eat Fire and Glow in the Dark. She has also published a spiritual memoir, Are We There Yet?, a collection of personal essays, Animals in Our Lives, plus essays with her writers group entitled Writing Our Lives. Moore has recently been designated Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Texas and has made her home in Texas for over 30 years.

Moore notes: “My fascination with words and their magic began as a child with my grandmother.  She would recite long narratives like Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha and James Whitcomb Riley’s melodic Little Orphant Annie to me at bedtime. Mysterious things happened to the children in this poem. With each tragic stanza Gramma would whisper Annie’s refrain in my ear,

An’ the Gobble-uns ‘ll git you
      Ef you
        Don’t
          Watch
            Out!

Such rhyme and terror gave me the shivers, and I’ve been on the lookout for poetic goblins ever since.”

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