The Academy of American Poets site presents a useful discussion of
Modernism and its poets. Click on Marianne Moore for a brief biography and description of her contribution to Modernism. E-texts of numerous Moore works are also available.

Heath Online Instructor's Guide: Marianne Moore
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/moore.html

This useful site for teachers of Moore suggests ways of understanding the text, common classroom issues in reading Moore, as well as questions for reading and discussion of different works.

Voices & Visions: Spotlight on Marianne Moore
http://www.learner.org/collections/multimedia/literature/vvseries/vvspot/Moore.html

This site presents several links to Moore related sites on the Web. View a video clip set to Moore's poem, "The Fish."

BIOGRAPHY
Marianne Moore (1887-1972) was born in St. Louis, but her father chose not to remain with his family, and eventually Moore and her mother moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1909. She had already begun writing poetry in college, and she began submitting her work to several small experimental magazines. Her poetry immediately attracted the attention of other writers, including William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens. Williams included her work in a small mimeographed magazine he published in the early 1920s. From 1925 to 1929 she was editor of The Dial, a New York literary journal

In 1951 Moore's Collected Poems won almost every major American literary award, and her work found new audiences who were charmed by her enthusiasm for oddly named animals, racehorses, and the Brooklyn Dodgers.