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Richard O. Moore (February 26, 1920 – March 25, 2015) was an American poet associated with Kenneth Rexroth and the San Francisco Renaissance. His earliest poetry was published in 1945 in Circle Magazine by George Leite. In 1949 he was one of the founders of KPFA, the first listener-supported public radio station in the United States. He continued to write poetry, but seldom sought to publish. Over the next fifty years he was active as a documentary filmmaker and public television executive, at KQED, San Francisco and KTCA, Minneapolis-Saint Paul.