Edgar Wilson Nye called her "worse than a Gatling gun". Here, she is inspired by the Great Chicago Fire:  Her less morbid side is on display when she hymns "Temperance Reform Clubs":  Despite her acknowledgment that "Literary is a work very difficult to do," she did not approve of the life of Byron:  Mark Twain was a self-described fan of Moore (though not for the reasons Moore would have liked). Twain alluded to her work in "Following the Equator", and it is widely assumed that Moore served as a literary model for the character of Emmeline Grangerford in "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". Grangerford's funereal ode to Stephen Dowling Botts:  is not far removed from Moore's poems on subjects like "Little Libbie":  Moore was also the inspiration for comic poet Ogden Nash, as he acknowledged in his first book, and whose daughter reported that her work convinced Nash to become a "great bad poet" instead of a "bad good poet". "The Oxford Companion to American Literature" describes Nash as using Moore's  Selections of Moore appeared in D. B. Wyndham-Lewis and Charles Lee's famous "Stuffed Owl" anthology, and in other collections of bad poetry. Most of her poetry was reprinted in a 1928 edition, which can be found online. Her complete poetry and prose, with biography, notes, and references, can be found in the Riedlinger edited collection "Mortal Refrains". Most poetry collections reprint the latest, "best", versions of their contents. Riedlinger has adopted the opposite philosophy. Moore has been grouped into the Western Michigan School of Bad Versemakers. Her local contemporaries — including Dr. William Fuller, S.H. Ewell, J.B. Smiley, and Fred Yapple — do not appear to have had relationships with each other, but their proximity and similar penchant for exceptionally laughable verse have led to their posthumous grouping together. Since 1994 the Flint Public Library has held the Julia A. Moore Poetry Festival to celebrate bad poetry.