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Barbara Moraff was born on 1939 in United States, is an American poet. Discover Barbara Moraff's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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1939

Barbara Moraff (born 1939 Paterson, New Jersey) is an American poet of the Beat generation living in Vermont.

Jack Kerouac called Moraff "the baby of the Beat generation" because she was just 18 when they met but was already being published by Leroi Jones and in Evergreen Review.

She was reading in various New York City coffeehouses when she was able to get out of a very restrictive home environment—complicated by plastic surgery needed to repair her face after a mutilation.

1960

In the 1960s Moraff was experimenting writing SOUND poetry.

Robert Duncan sent a poem by her to Denise Levertov.

She studied human nutrition to create a nutritional plan for her son, who, like her, also had cystic fibrosis.

This resulted in the writing of The Cookbook/Handbook to Nutrition for Kids Who Have Cystic Fibrosis.

Moraff self-published the book; it can be found in the CF Foundation's library.

1961

Moraff and her partner moved to Vermont in late 1961, where they built a small one-room cabin on land belonging to a former Black Mountain College student with whom they exchanged work for rent.

1964

In a 1964 interview with Paideuma (University of Maine), Kerouac called Moraff "the best girl poet writing in America".

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1966

Moraff's first child, Alesia, was born in 1966, and shortly afterward Moraff bought a remote hilltop farm in Strafford, Vermont.

She taught herself organic farming practices and for many years raised the family's food and kept a cow and two goats.

She made cheese and studied medicinal herbs.

1971

Her son Marco was born in 1971.

Marco grew healthy and ran long-distance track in high school.

He became an artist, and many of his works are now in private collections.

He also designed and built furniture using driftwood, branchwood, marble, and slate.

1972

In 1972 he was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.

1973

In 1973, Moraff founded Vermont Artisans, Vermont's first craft sales and educational cooperative.

Although partially disabled, Moraff is still able to produce some pottery, mostly commissioned dinner sets.

In the summer, she bakes wholegrain sourdough bread and sells it at local farmers' markets.

Moraff has appeared in two movies: an anti-war film Button, Button (aired on CBS) and Enlightened Society (Vajradhatu Films).

1974

Moraff met Chogyam Trungpa in 1974 through Allen Ginsberg.

She thought she could learn Tibetan Buddhist breathing methods to help Marco develop lungs strong enough to resist the early ravages of CF.

Moraff continued her Buddhist practice and study, attending the last seminary at which Trungpa was present, and later, ngedon school.

1976

Moraff began writing poetry again in 1976 when asked by a feminist lesbian press to sit on its editorial board.

There she edited the magazine CONCH and co-edited an anthology of local women's writings and art.

This included the first published work of Louise Erdrich.

2007

In 2007, Moraff was editing and collating a collection of previously published and unpublished work and was also working on a new collection (tentative title Machig Labdron Songs).

Forthcoming in late spring 2007 is a booklet from Longhouse Publishers, FOOTPRINT.

He died in April 2007 as a result of his cystic fibrosis.