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About katemccarrollmoore

Kate Moore’s passion is literacy, and she serves as a mentor teacher and staff developer throughout the greater Bay Area. Kate served three terms as the City of San Ramon's Poet Laureate (2012-2018); she also teaches poetry writing workshops for children and adults. Kate holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership for Social Justice from California State University, East Bay, an M.A. in Teacher Leadership from St. Mary’s and a B.A. in English Education from SUNY Albany. She and Bob Moore are the proud parents of four beautiful grown daughters, and the smitten grandparents of eight beautiful children who fill them with hope for the future.

The View From Here

Posted on August 11, 2016 by katemccarrollmoore

  What a beautiful view it is here at the top of the world where our history began, where our future is waiting   Take a moment and take it all in, from the outside these vast rolling hills, this … Continue reading →

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Instead

Posted on August 6, 2016 by katemccarrollmoore

Lord knows, I should be working. I brought home boxes of things that have to be sorted, organized, input. I have 9 essays to read and comment upon. A speech Monday, then a poem. A class Thursday. And school starts … Continue reading →

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Lasting Legacy

Posted on July 27, 2016 by katemccarrollmoore

Today we gather in this beautiful park in a city of parks grown among the hills and trails and the life of a grateful community to remember the heart and the soul of a city pioneer, the one and the … Continue reading →

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Junebird

Posted on July 6, 2016 by katemccarrollmoore

I bought a green glass bird feeder. Hung it in the backyard to honor birdmanmac, my complicated dad. Filled it with songbird seed. And waited.  Checked it everyday until at last a spider spun a web across the surface. Brushed … Continue reading →

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Time Travel

Posted on July 3, 2016 by katemccarrollmoore

Strapped into a metal cylinder Hurtling across the sky Through blue and cloud and nothingness Thoughts drift future forward Till with a jolt we land   Thrust into this space Where every thing is newness Familiar still Shadows of the … Continue reading →

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A Literary Prayer (with a nod to Irish Writer Samuel Beckett who made famous the literary truism that all poetry is prayer)

Posted on June 25, 2016 by katemccarrollmoore

We are thought leaders in the library space This space to Inquire                                     Imagine                                                       Innovate                                                                         Inspire A place where words take wing when we commit to the power of 10 building a culture of digital literacy and citizenship … Continue reading →

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Turning Point

Posted on June 18, 2016 by katemccarrollmoore

  Once upon a lifetime ago You breathed your way into the world Beginning the story that is your life   Through moments and days and months and years Every weird and wondrous and wicked thing you’ve seen Everything you’ve … Continue reading →

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Haiku Filibuster

Posted on June 17, 2016 by katemccarrollmoore

This summer’s day stand Is not selling lemonade words not guns, our plea

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Dedication

Posted on June 2, 2016 by katemccarrollmoore

  Every year we gather To remember for one day The lives of those who are no more The lives of those who once were dedicated to the truth that all men are created equal that life, liberty and the … Continue reading →

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May Day

Posted on May 5, 2016 by katemccarrollmoore

Today’s walk littered with last night’s windstorm brittle branches broken, orphaned here along the pavement helplessly still this still May morning   Across my vision like a silent movie, a slow moving dreamscape doe in flight, scattered heaps, swoop of … Continue reading →

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