[1] As the Nazis assumed power, Halley’s father – who was Jewish and thus forbidden to practice medicine – immigrated to the U.S. with her older brother, in 1936.
[3] Halley published three collections of poetry: Between Wars & Other Poems (1965), which was originally published by noted sculptor and artist Leonard Baskin through his Gehenna Press in Northampton, MA, then by Oxford University Press in 1965 where it won an Oxford Summer Poetry Book Prize.
With UMass Press, she also published The Bearded Mother (1979) and Rumors of the Turning Wheel (2003), the former also being designed and illustrated by Baskin.
Her poetry has been published in various outlets, “My Two Grandfathers” appeared in Saul Bellow’s The Noble Savage,[5] and “The Village Hears that Gold is Unstable” in The New Republic.
[2] The Anne Halley Poetry Prize, co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Review and the English Department at UMass Amherst, is named in her honor.