Helen Curtin Moskey, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Helen Curtin Moskey

Irish-American poet

Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1931

Date of Death: 25-Mar-2003

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Helen Curtin Moskey

  • Helen Curtin Moskey (March 27, 1931, Hartford, Connecticut – March 25, 2003, Hartford) was an Irish-American poet of dual U.S.-Irish nationality.
  • In 1994, she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, with honors, from Trinity College (Connecticut), Hartford, Connecticut.
  • Her senior thesis was titled A Kerry Ethnography: A History of the Descendants of Owen O'Sullivan Mors, Muingaphuca, Caragh Lake, Co.
  • Kerry, 1926-1992.
  • She subsequently studied poetry with several established American poets, including Mark Doty, Stanley Kunitz, and Yusef Komunyakaa; at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts; and at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.
  • Additionally, the Irish poet EilĂ©an NĂ­ Chuilleanáin was a friend and advisor.
  • Moskey's work appeared in occasional compilations of poetry.
  • At the time of her death, she was preparing a volume of her selected poetry for publication. Her experiences as the child of an Irish immigrant mother; her extended stays at the family ancestral home at Muingaphuca, Caragh Lake, County Kerry; and her experience as a mid-century American woman who raised five children through the intense social transformation of American life from the post-war era to the 1970s, were powerful influences on the tone, style, and subject matter of her poetry. WAKING TO MORNING IN MUINGAPHUCA (1994) In Memory of Aunt Kate The fierce buzz of two black horseflies mating over my bed. Lace shadows on cement floor, sunlight through Irish crochet. Two goats bleating objections to my car in the yard, flee from me as I open the kitchen door. A creamy cow grazes near moss-grown walls; her calf bumps her udder with its milk-stained snout, juts its tongue for the long teats. There is a calmness on this rocky land. My heart tells me I should stay here forever. Copyright © 1994 by the Literary Estate of Helen Curtin Moskey.

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