Carol Muske-Dukes carolmd@usc.edu

www.carolmuskedukes.com (website)

University of Southern California, Professor: English/Creative Writing, since 1991 Prior: Ass’t Prof, since 1985

USC endowed:Phi Beta Kappa installation

Founder: PhD Program in Literature and Creative Writing, University of Southern Calif., Originally a retention “benefit” – 1999 (Dean Morton O. Schapiro) Established all aspects of the doctoral program, university committee approval, catalogue, etc.

Visiting Writer appointments: REA Distinguished Visiting writer, University of Virgina, Jenny McKean Moore Fellowship Lecturer, George Washington University, UC Irvine MFA program, Visiting Writer for several quarters,Columbia University, Visiting Writer, (several appointments) Smart Family Award, etc.

Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts award, Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, Poetry Society, Ingram-Merrill Fellowship. Pushcart Prizes, PEN awards, Writer for Writers (Barnes & Noble, Poets & Writers award, Library of Congress award, etc.

Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2018 for Blue Rose, National Book Award finalist, Poetry, 2003, LA Times Book Prize finalist, NYTimes Most Notable Books

Poet Laureate, State of California, appointed by the Governor, 2008-2011

(Most recent poem & essay publications: New Yorker & NYT)

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BOOK PUBLICATIONS: Poetry

(as Carol Muske and Carol Muske-Dukes)

Nine collections of Poems – most recent: Blue Rose – FINALIST, Long List, Pulitzer

BLUE ROSE, Penguin, (Penguin Poets Series), April 3, 2018

Paris Review “Pick”, Booklist, Reviews: The Guardian, the Washington Post, NY Times featured poem, Paris Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Hudson Review, NY Journal “Bookworm”, KCRW, NPR, Michael Silverblatt

San Francisco Chronicle: https://www.sfchronicle.com/books/article/State-Lines-Carol-Muske-Dukes-Blue-Rose-12941396.php

Facebook post w/ the reviews:  https://www.facebook.com/ carol .muskedukes/posts/1853045394754713

Or:

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2018/apr/23/poem-of-the-week-no-hands-by-carol-muske-dukes

The Hudson Review: https://hudsonreview.com/2018/04/the-news-from-poems/#.WwS2q-4vyUl

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KCRW Bookworm: https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/carol-muske-dukes-blue-rose

New York Journal of Books: https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/blue-rose-penguin-poets

The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/magazine/the-year-the-law-changed.html

The Paris Review: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01/05/staff-picks-dorothy-oz-arkansas/

The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/can-poetry-both-challenge-and-uplift-four-new-collections-show-us-how/2018/04/26/79aa1e20-3cc7-11e8-a7d1-e4efec6389f0_story.html

Publication – Oxford University Magazine, “Ferris Wheel” Poem Daily – “Mark Twain’s Dream” American Poet, “Translation Class”

Reception: Guggenheim winners, April, L.A.

TWIN CITIES, Penguin, (Penguin Poets Series) June, 2011 Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award, 2012, Midwest Pick Award CROSSING STATE LINES: an American Renga, co-edited w Bob Holman, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2011 SPARROW, Random House, 2004 – paperback publication NYT review, National Book Award Finalist SPARROW, Random House, 2003 (second printing, December, 2003) NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Short List Finalist, 2003

New Yorker, Books from Our Pages, 2003

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AN OCTAVE ABOVE THUNDER*, Selected and New Poems, Viking/Penguin, October, 1997(Selected and New Poems, hardcover from Carnegie-Mellon Press, 1997 – reprinted in Carnegie Classics)

RED TROUSSEAU, Viking/Penguin, 1993

APPLAUSE, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989

WYNDMERE, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985

SKYLIGHT, Doubleday & Co., 1981(reprinted in the Contemporary Classics Series, Carnegie-Mellon

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CAMOUFLAGE, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975

Many listed NYTimes Most Notable Books and reviewed NYTBR reviews, scores of other reviews

BOOK PUBLICATIONS: Fiction (As Carol Muske-Dukes)

CHANNELING MARK TWAIN, Random House, July, 2007 CHANNELING MARK TWAIN, paperback, August 19, 2008

LIFE AFTER DEATH*, Random House, 2001 (Novel)

LIFE AFTER DEATH, (paperback) 2002

SAVING ST. GERM*, Viking/Penguin, 1993 (Novel)

SAVING ST. GERM, (Penguin paperback) 1995

DEAR DIGBY*, Viking/Penguin Inc., 1989 (Novel)

DEAR DIGBY (paperback), Washington Sq. Press, 1991

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*New York Times “Most Notable” rating, reviews in NYT, LA Times, Washington Post, Wall St. Journal, Chicago Tribune, SLATE, New Yorker, LA Magazine, etc. etc.

Book Interviews with TERRI GROSS and MICHAEL SILVERBLATT, MORNING EDITION, NPR, “On Point”, NPR

BOOK PUBLICATIONS: Essays --Criticism

WOMEN &oro POETRY: TRUTH, AUTO BIOGRAPHY AND THE SHAPE OF THE SELF -- “POETS ON POETRY” Series, ed. by David Lehman, University of Michigan Press, June, 1997NY Times Most Notable Book

MARRIED TO THE ICEPICK KILLER: A POET IN HOLLYWOOD, essays, Random House, 2002 (most essays reprinted from New York Times Book Review, Bookend section, New York Times Magazine, New York Times Op Ed page, or LA Times Book Review)(Listed Best Books of 2002, San Francisco Chronicle)

New York Times Most Notable Books – listed several books

PUBLICATION: OPEN ROAD MEDIA, Electronic Book Publishers, NYC –have obtained six of my 15 books (poems, novels, essays) in 2014 - published top picks (others already e-books on Amazon, etc.)

STUDY GUIDEA Study Guide for Carol Muske-Dukes, “Our Side”, GALE Research, Vol. 24, 2018

PUBLICATIONS: ANTHOLOGIES

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THE MIND HAS CLIFFS OF FALL, Poems at the Extremes of Feeling, edited by Robert Pinsky, W.W. Norton, 2019

“Gun Control”: in Bullets & Bells, Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence (2017), ed. by Clements, Teague & Radar

“Thomas at the Top”, (as “Monticello”) in Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Jefferson (2016), ed. by Lisa Russ Spaar

“Some Say”, in Resistance, Rebellion, Life: Fifty Poems Now,(2017), ed. by Majmudar

EDUCATION:

B.A., 1967, English: Creighton University

M.A., 1970, English: California State University San Francisco (English/Creative Writing)

READINGS, INTERVIEWS Diesel Bookstore, April 3, 2018 Vroman’s, Pasadena, April 5, Chevalier’s (Larchmont) April 10, L.A. Times Book Festival, April 21 & 22, McNally Jackson Books, NYC,

New York University, Lillian Vernon House, NYC May 3, Moe’s Books, Berkeley, Powell’s Books, Portland, Oregon

Saratoga Springs Writers Conference, July 1-6, Skidmore College, New York – featured writer, readings Upcoming: Blacksmith Series, Cambridge, MA., Trinity College, Hartford, CT.

Broad Museum, my graduate course in the “ekphrastic poem” – 3rd year in tandem with the museum – readings presented in April

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Writers’ Conference: Saratoga Springs, New York, July 1-6Upcoming 2018 readings (for Blue Rose) L.A. – Diesel Books, Vroman’s, The Broad, Chevalier’s, the L.A. Times Book Festival, panel and reading - in New York: McNally/Jackson Books, New York University. In Berkeley: Moe’s Bookstore – in Portland, Powell’s Books – and more.

Reading in Cambridge, MASS. Fall, 2018 Adams House, Harvard -

With Michael Silverblatt, upcoming (my 4th interview with him, over years) Also, two interviews in the past with Terri Gross.

Early reviews, BLUE ROSE: Paris Review “Pick” & Booklist

LATimes Book Festival, reading, panel, book signing

Paris Review – Interview with Carol Muske-Dukes, EBSCO worldwide Paris Review - http://www.theparisreview.org/search?q=Carol+Muske-Dukes

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/academy+of+american+poets+-+Poem+a+Day/15863a05c6d72fe7 Academy of American Poets, “Wildfire Moon” + commentary CMD – Nov. 14, 2016

April 14, 2016, “Live/Die”, poem in NYTimes Magazinehttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/t-magazine/nari-ward-carol-muske-dukes-art-poem.html

All books reviewed widely, anthologized widely (NYTimes, New Yorker, Paris Review, Southern Review, APR, etc.)

My own reviews in LA Times, Huffington Post. For LA Times Books: review of Jane Mead & Daniel Borzutsky. For Huffington Post: Rita Dove, Robert Pinsky, Elizabeth Metzger, Phillis Levin, Jeredith Merrin.

Huffington Post, Op Ed, “Foreclosing on Trump”, Oct. 25, 2016

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Huffington Post, Op Ed, “Vote for President Oprah, 2020”, Nov. 21, 2016

AWP (Associated Writing Programs,) Panel & reading, April, 2016

Poetry Reading, at UC IRVINE, MFA program, May 19, 2016 + Master Class with UC Irvine MFA students

“Gale Force”, column, Huffington Post, Sept. 9, 2015

Film, “Some Say Sappho” – in progress – working with producers and director, etc.

Terry Gross interview, NPR - updated

“Carol Muske-Dukes & the Art of Empathy”, Critical essay by Debra Nystrom, Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer, 2015

Award: 2017 John Drew Fellowship award,Presenting my play at Guild Hall theatre

Two staged readings of my play, “I Married the Icepick Killer” in NYC –

-- reading at Howl Happening Gallery/Theater, Sept. 11, 2015 – -- reading at Stella Adler Studio Center (affiliated, NYU Tisch Arts), December 17, 2015 Showcase of play at Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY – March, 2016

Conferences: Saratoga Springs, July, 2018 L.A. Times Book Festival, panels, 2017, 2018 (+ all prior years)

MLA, Presenting Panel, “Creative Writing & Academia” January 8, 2015, Vancouver

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University of North Dakota, March 24- March 28, 2015 lecture, panel, reading, featured writer w Gish Jen, Bonnie Jo Campbell

Associated Writing Programs, April 8-12, 2015, Minneapolis Conventional Center, panel & participant, Pink Tuxedos, Singing Great Poems with U.S. poet laureate, Rita Dove, etc. TV appearance, Fox 9 Morning News, KMSP, Mpls./St. Paul – Discussing AWP & USC CW/Lit phd program

Poetry Reading, KGB, New York City, Feb. 23rd, 2015 Also, talk with John Lithgow Feb. 22nd – at Golden Theatre, B’way Memorial Reading, for Carolyn Kizer, Hugo House, Seattle, Washington, January 17, 2015 with Tess Gallagher, etc.

Mark Strand’s 80th birthday reading at the New School, NYC – reader with Jorie Graham and U.S Poet Laureate Charles Wright – NYC, Oct. 9, 2014 – for Academy and PSA

Reading of my new play, “I Married the Icepick Killer” with Christopher Durang, March, 2014

Publications: The Boston Review (essay) “Zero at the Boner”, Sept. 10, 2014 Interview with Carol Muske-Dukes, The Paris Review, Spring 2014 & on-line Kenyon Review, (poem: “Mayhem”) Yale Review, (poem: “Orphanage” (2015)

The Paris Review, (poem: “No Hands”) Smithsonian Magazine, “Mark Twain’s Dream”, Spring, 2014 Poems in anthologies: “Monticello” in University of Virginia poetry anthology of same name, forthcoming 2016

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Los Angeles poetry anthology, ed. by Lummis, poems, 2015

Poems in Paperback edition, Penguin’s 20th C. American Poetry anthology, ed. Rita Dove,

The New Yorker, Page Turner, essay, “John Cheever at Sing Sing”, 2014

Several L.A. Times “round-up” poetry reviews – (I am poetry columnist for LA Times) published, 2014, 2015 i.e. March 15, 2014, Poetry reviews, CMD or March 6, 2015 or 8/15/13 – review of David Rakoff, in verse

Many Huffington Post reviews and essays. 2014-2015 L.A. Times, Mark Strand, memorial tribute, November 30, 2014

Science Writing Master’s Degree – approval for at Dornsife Book House project w Catherine Q. – Mayor’s Office

L.A. Times Op Ed – March 24, 2014, “Welcome Professor Bieber”

L.A. Times, Mark Strand, memorial tribute, Nov. 25, 2014

A & E Biography Channel, Carol Muske-Dukes on Robert Frost – 2014

Pasadena Central Library, “The Voice of Women in American Poetry”, Aug. 7, 2014 – participant, main reader with Maggie Nelson BOOK SIGNING – at LAX – at Hudson News (where my name is on a banner over the shop) and reading, April 17, 2014 Poetry reading, Hotchkiss School, Connecticut, Sept. 25, 2013 – on YOUTUBE: Carol Muske-Dukes/Hotchkiss

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Academy of American Poets, Poem-a-Day, “Failure to Thrive”, Aug. 7, 2014

L.A. Times Book Festival, 2015 – reading and panel

Reading: Seattle, Elliott Bay Books, Sept. 2014, with Sophie Cabot Black CW/Lit PhD committees: Chair, Corinna Schroeder, poetry Scott Reding, Chair, poetry Safiya Sinclair, poetry Mary-Alice Daniel, poetry Judge (annual) for David Coleman Dukes acting scholarship @ USC School of Dramatic Arts, (founder of scholarship w John Lithgow and others) May 8, 2015 Editor (& introduction) to a book of prose vignettes about growing up on the Dakota plains during the Great Depression, WYNDMERE WIND-ROWS, by Elsie Kuchera Muske – published by Figueroa Press, 2013 on Amazon

PUBLICATION OPEN ROAD MEDIA, Electronic Book Publishers, NYC –have obtained six of my 15 books (poems, novels, essays) in 2014 - published top picks (others already e-books on Amazon, etc.)

http://dornsife.usc.edu/videos/featured/166/a-life-of-poetry/

Admissions committee, Phd Program in CW/Lit, ongoing Course development: “A Tour of the Imagination” in conjunction with the new Broad museum: http://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/2354/a-tour-of-the-imagination-art-inspires-graduate-poetry-at-the-br/.

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Grant ($1000) awarded to my course from Provost & deans’ office to publish a book of student poems

Development of a Graduate Certificate in Science Writing – in progress with Dept. of English

RECENT AWARDS, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Paris Review Pick, for Blue Rose: January, 2018 BookList review of Blue Rose, March, 2018 East Hampton Guild Theatre – Fellowship, Play Writing & Production, 2016 Establishment of Carol Muske-Dukes Poetry Award (along with Ron Hansen, Fiction Award, also alum) by Creighton University, Arts & Letters, Omaha, Nebraska – to begin 2014, first award

Best American Poetry, 2012 – editor, Mark Doty – (reading, NYC, New School) – poems. Overall editor, David Lehman

Best American Poetry, 25th Anniversary volume, editor Robert Pinsky, 2013 – poems, Overall Editor, David Lehman

Poets & Writers, Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers award, presented at Poets & Writers gala, NYC (former awardees – Tony Kushner, Russell Banks, etc.) March 29, 2012

Southern California Council of English Teachers, Whittier California, Oct. 20, 2012, keynote address

Phi Kappa Phi Award, USC, for TWIN CITIES, 2012

Midwest Pick of the Publications – for Twin Cities, 2011 Pushcart Prize, 2011 (six Pushcart Prizes in all)

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PENGUIN ANTHOLOGY OF 20th Century American Poetry, ed. Rita Dove, 2012, poems

Appeared on Morning Edition, NPR, w Renee Montagne, for Crossing State Lines

Appeared on “On Point” NPR re Twin Cities, both April 22, 2011

Recent Readings: The Academy of American Poets, NYC, Poets’ House NY, New York University, Santa Cruz, Archer School, Maria Shriver’s Women’s Conference, Hotchkiss School, CT., University of Minnesota, etc.

Talk: Southern California Council of English Teachers, Whittier California

LA Times Book Festival, reading, panel, 2011, 2012 – I have participated in the LAT Book Festival each year since its inception. Readings and panels, etc.

GET LIT, “Ignite” Award, 2011

MASTER CLASS – taught at Poet’s House, NYC, 2012

JUDGE: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, 1995, (with fellow jurists – 5 in all- Dana Gioia, David Lehman and others.

VOICES & VISIONS, “Dancing the Poem” (with GET LIT/Words Ignite!) , Jan. 31, 2012

Judge, Whiting Award, 2011

Judging – invited, jurist T. S Eliot Prize

Judge, Annual (for David Coleman Dukes Scholarship award) – USC School of Dramatic Arts

Selection new Poet Laureate, Calif.

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Library of Congress - reading

Book tour, Minnesota bookstores, plus NY, California

Reviews and essays HuffingPost – regular column from 2010 onward

Poems – New Yorker, The Atlantic, Paris Review, “Gun Control”, Slate, 2012

Recipient: 2008 BOLD INK AWARD, from WriteGirl Given a Bold Ink Writers’ Award with fellow honorees Diablo Cody, Calle Khouri,

WRITEGIRL AWARD with Mona Simpson, Robin Swicord, etc. at Grammy Center, Los Angeles (see WriteGirl website) Judge, 2008 L.A. Times Book Prize, (with Mark Doty, David St. John) Co-Curator of Poetry (with Bob Holman) - AMERICA: Now & Here – sponsored by ARTRAIN. A national project beginning in November 2008 – with lead curator, Eric Fischl. A “moving museum” of contemporary art works (since 9/11) by major artists (Chuck Close, Cindy Sherman, etc.) with National Board (Mary Boone, Steve Martin, Bob Kerrey) -- along with poetry readings, a “national renga”, poetry troubadours, etc. traveling to over 40 cities across the U.S., including Los Angeles

L. A. Institute for the Humanities, (fellow since inception, first fellow, 2002), Lecture, “The Imagination Behind Bars”, March, 2008, USC

APPOINTMENT: POET LAUREATE, CALIFORNIA – by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, November 2008. Senate ratification, 2009, completion of term as Poet laureate, 2011.

USC Formal Announcement, by President Steven Sample, USC-Notre Dame game luncheon, reading of poem

Readings as Poet Laureate – Sacramento, Berkeley, San Francisco, Santa Monica, high schools, California.

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OP EDS. New York Times, 2002-2008

NY Times, Arts & Liesure, Features

New York Times Magazine, “I Married the Icepick Killer”, LIVES, March 2000 OP EDs & FEATURES – New York Times and LA Times

GRANTS AND AWARDS, cont. Writer for Writers award, Barnes & Noble, presented in NY

Bold Ink Award – from WriteGirl -- 2008 Short list finalist: Poetry, National Book Award, for SPARROW, Random House, 2003 Best Poems of 2003 Award, THE YALE REVIEW, Smart Family Foundation Award Chapin Award, from Columbia University, Graduate Writing Program, for body of work, 2004 teaching four master classes at Columbia, March, 2004

WRITERS AT WORK Award, (Poets & Writers) Poem chosen for postcard reproduction, 2004, L.A.

New York Times Op Ed Page, Jan. 31, 2003, Writing the New Year: poem, “Crack the Whip”

The Sidney Harmon Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College, NYC, Spring 2006. Previous writers in residence: Tony Kushner, Yehuda Amichai, Lorrie Moore, John Edgar Wideman, 15Anita Desai, Paul Auster, Edward Albee, etc.

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Seattle Arts & Lectures Award, reading and lectures in Seattle and Portland, April, 2004

BEST AMERICAN POEMS of 2001, ed. by Robert Hass, 2001

Phi Beta Kappa Award and Induction, 2000, speaker (USC chapter), Induction Ceremony

Rea Distinguished Writer Visitor Award, University of Virginia, 2000

Pushcart Prize in Poetry, 1999 and Pushcart Prize in Nonfiction, 1999

New York Times Most Notable Books, 1998, An Octave Above Thunder

Los Angeles Times: Finalist, LA Times Book Prize, An Octave Above Thunder,1997-1998

Witter-Bynner Award, from The Library of Congress, 1997-1998, Reading at LOC

Alumni Achievement Award, Creighton University, 1996 (and Commencement Speaker)

Phi Kappa Phi USC Faculty Recognition Award, 1994 For Red Trousseau (poetry) and Saving St. Germ (novel) published 1993

PEN West Nomination – Best Book of Poems, 1993-1994

Pushcart Prize (Pushcart Press), 1992-1993

Sigma Nu’s Epsilon Omicron Chapter, “Outstanding Faculty Member” (USC), 1986-1987

National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1984

JOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM Fellowship, Poetry, 1981

Jenny McKean Moore Visiting Lectureship (George Washington University), 1980

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Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award (for second book, SKYLIGHT) 1979

Creative Artists Public Service Program Grant (CAPS), 1979

Pushcart Prize, 1978

John Atherton Poetry Fellowship (Bread Loaf) and Staff Assistantship, 1977-1978

Dylan Thomas Poetry Award, The New School, 1973

TEACHING

Reading, University of Minnesota, 2015Master Class, POETS’ HOUSE, NYC, Spring 2012 Columbia University, Graduate Writing Program, Fall, 2006 Hamline university, St. Paul, Minnesota: Oct. 24-26, 2007, Master Classes, Public Interview, Reading, Manhattanville College, Visiting Writer, 2007

Bryn Mawr, Master Classes, Spring, 2006 Harman Writer-in-Residence, Baruch College, Spring, 2006

Visiting Distinguished Writer, Rea Disting. Writer, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Spring 1999

Visiting Distinguished Hurst Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, Fall 1999 Visiting, Charles University, Prague, Summer Writing Seminars, 1999 Visiting Poet, UC Irvine, Spring 1993

Full Professor, University of Southern California, 1993—present

Associate Professor, University of Southern California, 1991-1993 Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, 1989-1991

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Lecturer, University of Southern California, 1984-1988

Visiting Fiction Writer, UCLA, Spring, 1989

Visiting Poet, UC Irvine, 1983

Jenny McKean Moore Distinguished Lectureship, George Washington University, 1980-1981

Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, Graduate Writing Program, 1979-1981

Visiting Poet, Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 1980

Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire, 1978-1979

Visiting Writer, UC Irvine, 1978

Lecturer, Poetry, The New School, New York, 1975-1978

RECENT PUBLICATIONS: articles L.A. Times reviews, many New York Times reviews, many

New Yorker, Page Turner, John Cheever at Sing Sing, Oct. 13, 2013 http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/08/john-cheever-at-sing-sing-prison.html LA Times Arts & Culture: Books, Reviews http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-poetry-shelf-20131006,0,2647934.story

+ “The Big Smoke”, review, July 3, 2013 LA Times Arts & Culture, David Rakoff, review, Aug. 2013

http://www. latimes .com/features/books/jacketcopy/ la -ca-jc-david- rakoff -20130818,0,478365.story?page

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Wall St. Journal, Craft of Writing column

PUBLICATIONS: Works or Inclusions in Anthologies and Texts:

BEST AMERICAN POETRY, 2012

BEST AMERICAN POETRY, 2013, 75 th anniversary

PENGUIN ANTHOLOGY OF 20 th C. AMERICAN POETRY, ed. by Rita Dove, 2011

Several new anthologies – inc. Poets of the New West, Crossing State Lines, Poets’ Alphabet, etc. etc. Cover: POETS & WRITERS MAGAZINE, Carol Muske-Dukes, Summer, 2007 LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE, September, 2007 issue, feature on Carol Muske-Dukes,“Down the River”, The Arts

PEOPLE Magazine, July 16, 2007, 4 Star review of Channeling Mark Twain Other reviews: LA Times Book Review, LA Times on-line (covering my book tour), Chicago Sun-Times, “O” (Oprah) Magazine, New Orleans Picayune, TIME OUT NY,San Francisco Chronicle (Best Book, 2007), Women’s Wear Daily (SCOOP), etc. etc.

Women Writers on the Edge, Writing by West Coast Women Writers, forthcoming from Knopf, 2002 American Poetry Review, poems 2005

CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS, (GALE RESEARCH REFERENCE VOLUME) FEATURED SECTION, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Carol Muske-Dukes, 2003

OPEN HOUSE Anthology, ed. Mark Doty, Graywolf Press, 2003

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WRITING LOS ANGELES, ed. D. Ulin, Modern American Library, 2002 “IN A HEARTBEAT”, in “O” Oprah Magazine, NOVEMBER, 2001 – FEATURE

“OUT OF THE CRADLE”, Summer/Fall 2001, Kenyon Review

BEST AMERICAN POEMS, 2001, ed. Robert Hass

THE EXTRAORDINARY TIDE, WOMEN WRITERS/MILLENIUM, Columbia University Press, 2000

THE BODY ELECTRIC, POEMS FROM POETS AT THE MILLENIUM, Norton Anthology, (APR) 2000

BIRTHDAY POEMS, A CELEBRATION, ed. Jason Shinder

NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY, 2000 THE BODY ELECTRIC, American Poetry Review Anthology, 2000 PUSHCART PRIZE ANTHOLOGY, 1999 (poems and essay)

THE MAKING OF A POEM, a Norton anthology of poetic forms, ed. by Eavan Boland and Mark Strand, 1999

THE NEW BREAD LOAF ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY, ed. Michael Collier and Stanley Plumly, 1999

POET’S CHOICE, POEMS FOR EVERYDAY LIFE, selected and introduced by Robert Haas, Ecco Press, 1998

Introduction: ABSOLUTE DISASTER, anthology of LA Writers, Penguin, 1996

Introduction: JITTERS, BEST OF COFFEEHOUSE WRITING, 1996

CAMERA, LIGHTS, POETRY, anthology ed. by Jason Shinder, 1996-1996

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WHAT WILL SUFFICE, essays on contemporary poetry, ed. by Buckley and Merrill, Peregrine-Smith, 1995

ONE HUNDRED GREAT POEMS BY WOMEN, ed. by Carolyn Kizer, Ecco Press, 1995

MOTHERSONGS, ed. by Susan Gilbert et al, Norton, 1995

GRAND PASSION, POETS OF LOS ANGELES AND BEYOND, Red Wind Books, 1995

MODELS OF THE UNIVERSE, ed. by Friebert & Young, Oberlin College Press, 1995

IN THE COMPANY OF MY SOLITUDE, ed. by Howe & Klein, Persea Books, 1995—American Writing from the AIDS pandemic

WALK ON THE WILD SIDE, URBAN AMERICAN POETRY SINCE 1975, ed. by Nicholas Christopher, 1994

ARTICULATIONS, THE BODY AND ILLNESS IN POETRY, ed. by Jon Mukand, Iowa University press, 1994

REVISING THE FUTURE, essay in WHERE WE STAND: WOMAN POETS ON LITERARY TRADITION, ed. by S. Bryan, W.W. Norton, January, 1994

INHERIT THE LAND, Anthology, University of Minnesota, 1993

THE PITTSBURGH BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETS, ed. by Ochester

and Ovesick, Univeristy of Pittsburgh Press, 1993

SARAJEVO: AN ANTHOLOGY FOR BOSNIA RELIEF, Elgin, 1993

THE PUSHCART PRIZE ANTHOLOGY, 1992-1993, ed. by Henderson

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BEST POEMS OF 1992, ed. D. Lehman, Scribner’s 1992 (Guest Editor, Charles Simic)

AFTER THE STORM, ed. F.D. Reeve, Meek, Maisonneuve Press, 1991

OXFORD COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY POETRY, 1994

CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS, Gale Research Company, Detroit, 1990(sidelight feature: interview re: “Saving St. Germ”)

POETS FOR LIFE, ed. by Michael Klein, Crown Publishers, (poems and introduction), 1989

VITAL SIGNS, University Press Anthology, ed. by R. Wallace, Little Brown, 1989

THE PLOUGHSHARES POETRY READER, ed. by Joyce Peseroff, Ploughshares Books, Boston, 1988

NEW YORK-BEIJING, ed. by G. MacKenzie, Coyote Press, 1988 (facing translations)

WRITING OUR LIVES, ed. by K. Campell, Camden Press, London, 1988

WRITING POEMS, ed. by R. Wallace, Little Brown, 1987

LITERATURE: AN INTRODUCTION TO READING AND WRITING, ed. by Roberts & Jacobs, Prentice Hall, 1986

ANTHOLOGY OF MAGAZINE VERSE, YEARBOOK OF AMERICAN POETRY, ed. by Pater, Monitor Books, 1985

BREAD LOAF ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY, ed. by Lea, Pack, Parini, New England Press, 1985

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MODERN AMERICAN WOMEN POETS, ed. by Jean Gould, Dodd Mead Co., 1985

EXTENDED OUTLOOKS, ed. by Jane Cooper, et al, Dodd Mead & Co., 1985

FORTY FIVE CONTEMPORARY POEMS, ed. by Alberta Turner, Longman Pub., 1984

WOMAN POET, THE EAST, VOLUME TWO, Women-In-Literature, INC., 1981

POET’S CHOICE, POEMS, 1980, ed. by G. Murphy, Tendril Books, 1980

THE PUSHCART PRIZE ANTHOLOGY, ed. by Bill Henderson, Pushcart Press, 1978

THE AMERICAN POETRY ANTHOLOGY, ed. by Daniel Halpern, Avon Books, 1975

EATING THE MENU: POEMS 1970-1974, ed. B.E. Taylor, W.C. Brown, 1974

COLUMNS: PoetryHUFFINGTON POST, regular blog-columnist – archived

Columnist, LATBR POET’S CORNER, LA Times Book Review (column appears every month -- reviews of current books of poetry, international) - 2001-2004 Reproduced on Poems.com

PUBLICATIONS: Chapters in Books

Magical Poetry Blimp Pilot’s Guide, chapter “Carolyn Kizer: Her Life and Work,” ed. by Annie Finch, forthcoming

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OPEN HOUSE,ed. by Mark Doty, Graywolf Press, 2003

Oxford University Press, THE EYE OF THE POET, ed. by David Citino, Chapter: “What is a Poem,” 2000

ROOM TO GROW, essays on writers and their children, St. Martin’s Press, 1999 (Paperback, 2000)

THE PRACTICE OF POETRY, ed. by Behn & Twichell, 1992—chapter on writing exercises

MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS (Poems published in, over last 30 years -- too numerous to list – etc. etc.

Recently: The New Yorker, “Twin Cities”, The Atlantic, “Boy”, SLATE, Kenyon Reivew, etc.

The New Republic, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The New Yorker, Poetry, Field, The Paris Review, New York Times, LA Times, Antaeus, The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Columbia, Poetry Now, Southern California Poetry Anthology, The Antioch Review, Western Humanities Review, The New England Review, Ms., The Iowa Review, Pacific Review, LA Times Book Review, NY Times Book Review, Elima, View, Threepenny Review, Verse, Portland Review, Northridge Poetry Review, Parnassus, Poetry Miscellany, GW Review, Yale Review, Solo, Meridian, "O" Magazine, New York Times Op Ed page, LATBR, etc. etc.

PUBLICATIONS: Poems Online

SLATE, December 18, 2012, “Gun Control”. poem

Other on-line pubs: Huffington Post, Atlantic, etc.

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“FRESH AIR”, with Terry Gross, NPR, July, 2007 (on website – carolmuskedukes.com

“BOOK WORM” with Michael Silverblatt, November, 2007 “Books” with Leonard Lopate, WNYC, June, 2007 QUICK MUSE – on-line poems with Ken Gordon

SLATE , 2002, four poems from SPARROW, available on audio anthology

The Academy of American Poets On-line, 1999

SLATE, 1997, two poems, “Benares” and “We Bought Quilts at Kalona”

National Public Radio, “FRESH AIR” with Terry Gross, poem in audio anthology from 2002 program National Public Radio (KCRW, Los Angeles) three interviews with Michael Silverblatt on “BookWorm”program -- on my novels and books of poems, most recently, SPARROW

PUBLICATIONS: Poems Translated

Storie di Ordinaria Poesia, Antologia dei poeti americani degli anni 1970, Savelli Editori, 1982

New York/Beijing, ed. by G. MacKenzie, Coyote Press, 1988

PUBLICATIONS: Fiction Translated

DEAR DIGBY (Portuguese and Spanish) Querida Digby, Bertrand Editora, trans. by E. Sousa

LIFE AFTER DEATH, Random House, 2001 -- Translated, 2004, Czech (Prague) Book Club, Knizi Klub, “Zivot po smrti” , Prague, 2004

PUBLICATIONS: Articles and Critical Reviews

The American Poetry Review, poems, 2008 The Kenyon Review, poems, 2008, New York Times Book Review, review of David Kirby, Sunday NYTimes Book Review, April 29, 2007

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New York Times Op Ed, "A Lost Eloquence", December 21, 2002Follow-up letters, January 2, 2003

THE NEW YORKER, Winter Fiction Issue, 2002, "A Private Matter"

Kenyon Review, “Out of the Cradle Violently Rocking”, review of three anthologies of younger poets, Winter, 2001

Washington Post Review of Ann Lamott’s “Blue Shoe,” 2002 "Electronic Pillory", on Hillary Clinton, L.A. Times Opinion Page, July 21, 2002

“LA Lit 2000” (novel excerpt), L.A. Times Book Review, April 16

“Poetry Tonight!” NY Times Book Review, BOOK END, April 9, 2000

“Married to the Icepick Killer,” NY Times Magazine, LIVES section, March 2000

“East, West, Right, Left, Politics Through the Eyes of Poetry,” Hungry Mind Review, Winter, 1999-2000 (from A POET IN HOLLYWOOD)

“Ann Stanford—a Reminiscence,” Writers’ Chronicle, 2000

“Poets Respond to Harold Bloom,” Boston Review, Winter, 1998

- Review of Peter Sacks, New York Times Book Review, Jan. 20, 1998

- Poem "Summer Cold", published in LA Times Book Review, April 24, 1998

-- "The Invention of Cuisine", (poem) in POET'S CHOICE column (Robert Hass) Washington Post, 1998 - LA Times Book Review, review of Ted Hughes' BIRTHDAY LETTERS, March 15, 1998

- FIELD Magazine, essay on W.S. Merwin, "Red", Spring, 1998 - The Nation, review of Clare Rossini, June 1998 -S.F. Chronicle, review of J.D. McClatchy, The Ten Commandmens, August, 1998 “Point Conception,” LA Times Book Review, “Bookend” essay, July 20, 1997

“Poetry at West Point,” NY Times Book Review, “Bookend” Essay, July 20, 1997

NY Times Book Review, review of “Black Zodiac” (Charles Wright), August 31, 1997

The Nation, review of Jean Valentine, Jill Bialosky, Brenda Hillman, July 21, 1997

“Does Poetry Matter?” LA Times Book Review, essay, April 20, 1997

“There Goes the Nobel Prize,” Green Mountains Review, Millenium Issue, Spring 1997

International Poetry Review, review of Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Life of Poetry”, Spring, 1997

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NY Times Book Review, review of Jane Kenyon’s “Selected Poems”, December 15, 1996

“The Poet’s Voice,” Michigan Quarterly Review, essay on Women and Poetry, Fall 1995

LA Times, article on Dodge Literary Festival, first person POV (as participant), September, 1996

The Nation, reviews of Ellen Bryant Voigt et al, November 20, 1995

NY Times Book Review, review of Mark Doty’s “Atlantis”, November 5, 1995

NY Times Book Review, review of Francine Prose, “Hunters and Gatherers,” July, 1995

The Nation, review of Evan Boland’s “Object Lessons,” Aril 24, 1995

“Ricochet,” NY Times Op Ed Page, poem, June 22, 1995

“Out of Life’s Shadows Comes Poetry With Light,” NY Times Sunday Arts & Leisure, article on Bill Moyer’s Poetry Series, June 18, 1995

“When the System Worked,” NY Times Op Ed Page, essay, May 30, 1995

NY Times Book Review, review of Anne La Mott’s “Bird By Bird”, March 5, 1995

NY Times Book Review, review of Jane Hirschfield’s “Women In Praise Of The Sacred”and “The October Palace”, July 3, 1994 NY Times Book Review, review of Linda Wagner-Martin’s “Telling Women’s Lives,” November 6, 1994

NY Times Book Review, reviews of Kathleen Fraser, Jim Daniels, Elinor Wilner

“Poets Who Write Fiction,” Parnassus, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, essay on Rita Dove and Sandra Cisneros, 1995

“Washington Post Book Section, review of “Across The Bridge,” stories by Mavis Gallant, December 19, 1993

NY Times Book Review, review of five books by Laura Riding, November 28, 1993

“Evil Science Runs Amok…Again,” NY Times Op Ed Page, essay, June 10, 1993 (reprinted in other papers, including Minneapolis Star-Tribune)

“The Loop,” NY Times Book Review, novel by Joe Coomer, January 3, 1993

“Wild Iris,” American Poetry Review, essay on Louise Gluck, January, 1993

“The Practice of Poetry,” Harper Collins, ed. by Behn & Twichell, 1993

“Passion, Politics and Secret Rituals,” NY Times Book Review, April 19, 1992

“Sons, Lovers, Immigrant Souls,” NY Times Book Review, January 27, 1991

“Poems From The Hearth,” LA Times Book Review, review of Robert Creelye, June 23, 1991

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Cover and Selected Poems, “Carol Muske,” American Poetry Review, June/July 1991

LA Times Book Review, review of Carol Maso’s “The Art Lover”, July 1, 1990

“Farah Fawcett,” House and Garden, July 1990

“Play Boola Noola Ball,” NY Times Book Review, review of Arabooloes, of Liberty Street, S. Swope, November 12, 1989

NY Times Book Review, review of Scott Spencer’s “Secret Anniversaries,” July 22, 1990

“Go Be a King in a Field of Weeds,” NY Times Book Review, reviews of Michael Ryan, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Spires, November 5, 1989

Essay on the Poems of Carolyn Kizer, critical volume ed. by David Rigsbee, Vanderbilt University Press, 1990

“Re-Writing the Elegy,” introduction to “Poets For Life” anthology, and poems, ed. Michael Klein, Crown, 1989

“Formalities, Implosions and Somnabulisms,” NY Times Book Review, review of Robert Mezey et al, January 8, 1989 “Reading Their Signals,” NY Times Book Review, reviews of M. Hacker, Jane Kenyon, P. Dobler, June 21, 1987 “Fleshing Out the Zeitgist,” Western Humanities Review, essay on seven contemporary poets, Winter 1986-87

“Disk Jockeys, Eggplants and Desaparecidos,” NY Times Book Review, reviews of Raymond Carver, Alberto Rios, P. Goedicke, February 9, 1986

“ALBA LXXIX,” essay on Ezra Pound, Field, No. 33, Fall, 1985

“Something Upon Which to Rejoice,” Eliot’s “Ash Wednesday,” The Southern Review, v.21 #4, Autumn, 1985

--reprinted in T.S. Eliot, Oxford University Press, ed. by James Olney, 1988

“Lingua Materna: The Speech of Female History,” (Adrienne Rich’s “The Fact of a Doorframe”) NY Times Book Review, January 20, 1985

“A Language Master’s Cornucopia,” (“Samuel Johnson,” ed. by Donald Greene) LA Times Book Review, June, 1984

“Like Schoolgirls’ Salutations,” (Vita Sackville-West, V. Woolfe letters), LA TimesBook Review, July 24, 1984

“A Carousel of Colette’s Characters,” LA Times Book Review, January 2, 1984

“The Madness of a Seduced Woman: Susan Fromberg Schaeffer,” LA Times Book Review, July 24, 1983

“Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller,” LA Times Book Review, January 2, 1983

“Coming To Terms, Josephine Miles,” The American Book Review, Spring, 1981

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Meridian, review of “Cascades” by Pamela Stewart, March, 1980

“Backwards into the Future,” Parnussus, Spring/Summer, 1979

“Ourselves as History,” The Village Voice, May 16, 1974

“Electronic Archeology,” Review, June 1974

INTERVIEWS, TAPED READINGS, LISTINGS Poets & Writers Magazine, upcoming interview – July 2011 Upcoming: Bill Moyers’ Journal

Fresh Air, July 2007, BookWorm, 2007, and Leonard Lopate WNYC, 1007

Water Stone Review (Hamline University lit mag), interview with CMD, forthcoming

Liz Smith – New York Post, October 2, 2007

Interview with W. T. Pfefferle, for volume on “Poets and Place”, 2003-2004

Publishers’ Weekly, starred review and interview, for novel, Life After Death TIME OUT NY -- interview Contemporary Authors, 2002, featured author

LA Times Living Section, feature on LIFE AFTER DEATH, novel, 2001 Press Conference with Arts Leaders, June 24, 2002 – Protesting State Funding Cuts – LA TImes NPR: Fresh Air, hosted by Terry Gross, July 5, 2001, Life After Death

KCRW Radio: Bookworm, hosted by Michael Silverblatt, Life After Death

Meridian (literary magazine of the University of Virginia), “Interview with Carol Muske, ed. by McFadden, Spring 2000

USC “Ambassador, appt. 1999

Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry

Contemporary Authors Contemporary Literary Criticism Contemporary Women Poets Gale Research Literary Guide, Profile

The Writer’s Chronicle: Interview, AWP, October/November 1998, Vol. 31, #2, interview with

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Carol Muske and Molly Peacock The Oxford Poetry Magazine, interview with Carol Muske, 1996

LA Magazine, interview, poem, December issue, 1995

Poetry Flash (a poetry review and literary calendar), cover interview, August/September 1993

American Poetry Review (cover and poems), July, 1991

LA Daily News, “Poets in LA,” August 14, 1985 The Watershed Foundation: Poets on Tape, audio cassette, 1985 Northridge Poetry Review, 1984 Poetry Miscellany, Winter, 1981 Portland Review, Vol. 25, 1979 The Mirror On Fire, poems by Carol Muske LA Times, Dear Digby (interview) KCRW Radio: “Bookworm” hosted by Michael Silverblatt—two interviews: Saving St. Germ, Red Trousseau KPFX KBOO (Portland)

PROGRAM DIRECTION

FOUNDER and Former Director, PhD Program in Literature and Creative Writing, English Dept. , University of Southern California, 1997-2002

Co-Chair, AWP National Conference, April 2001, Palm Springs

Writing Program Director & Founder, ART WITHOUT WALLS, 1971-1984. A creative writing program for schools, prisons, hospitals, juvenile homes in New York State. Program development and coordination throughout New York, course development and teaching, curriculum and fundraising from government and private sources. NEA, NEH, banks, companies, private donors. This program, founded in 1971, is ongoing, under the direction of Mae Jackson.

Program Director and President, POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA, WEST, 1992-1994. Program development, not for profit status, fundraising, coordinating reading series “The Act of the Poet” in Los Angeles for PSA national. (Member, Board of Governors, Poetry Society of America)

Co-Director, University of Southern Califonria Poetry reading series (ongoing).

BENEFIT ORGANIZER: (With Actor John Lithgow) March 8, 2001 -- at the USC School of Theatre's BING Theater (reception in Queen's Courtyard preceding performances) PLAY READINGS (Zoo Story by Albee and Over-ruled by Shaw) performed by John Lithgow, Annette Bening, Stacy Keach, George Wendt, Rene Auberjonois, Alix Kingston -- to raise money for the DAVID DUKES MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND. Raised over $80, 000 -- first scholarship award presented by me at the School of Theatre's Awards ceremony, May, 2002 to Annie Katica, Junior, School of Theatre, in2003 -- to Patrick Adams, Junior, Schoolof Theatre. Consultant to David Dukes Memorial Scholarship at USC.

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ARCHIVE Donation: to the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, New York City -- the David Dukes archive. I am presently completing final arrangements for archive to be transferred to the library. Upcoming exhibition, consultant.

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

The Magical Poetry Blimp Pilot’s Guide, poetry handbook for children, Figueroa Press, 2011

Assistant Editor, Antaeus literary magazine, New York, 1971-1976

Co-editor, Songs from a Free Space, writings by women in prison, 1973 Editor, giving Back the World, an anthology of poems by world leaders (in progress)

NOVELS (Screenplays of) CHANNELING MARK TWAIN – optioned

Dear Digby (optioned by Michelle Pfeiffer)

Saving St. Germ (optioned by Julia Ormond for feature film)

Saving St. Germ presently optioned by Meg Ryan Short Wave (original screenplay)

RECENT JUDGING:

GOLD LINE PRESS, USC, faculty adviser and judge, 2010-11

L.A. Times Book Prize, 2008

Sarabande Books, 2nd Book Prize, 2003

Bread Loaf New England Press Bakeless Prize, 2001-2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Judge, 1999-2000

KINGSLEY TUFTS Book Prize Judge (with Robert Pinsky, Alice Quiinn) 1999 – 2005

National Book Award Judge, 1994 University of Houston, Michener Prize (for Graduate Writing Students), 1998 Lenore Marshall Prize, The Nation (with Robert Pinsky, James Tate) Board of Judges Miami University Poetry Series

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Poetry “Discovery” Award, Unterberg YMHA Poetry Center, 1994(with David St. John and Sherod Santos) National Book Award Judge, 1994 Barnard College Poetry Competition, 1993 (with Karl Kirchwey, Academy of American Poets) Poetry, Lenore Marshall/The Nation Poetry Judge, 1993

Countless Academy of American Poets Prize judging

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND LISTINGS

LA Institute for the Humanities (fellow since inception, 2002) USC “Experts” Directory (through USC News Service) PEN (also on advisory board) Academy of American Poets West President (former) —Poetry Society of America West Poets & Writers Authors Guild Women in Management (USC) USC Speakers Bureau Who’s Who International, Writers: Who’s Who American Women Who’s Who, The West NOW Los Angeles Library Association (advisory board) American Biographical Institute Contemporary Authors Creative Coalition Faculty Senate (USC, 1992) Southern California Booksellers Association (Guest Speaker)

LECTURES & READINGS

BEST AMERICAN POETRY READING, 2012

POETRY FOUNDATION, Chicago, 2011 Best American Poetry Reading, New School, Sept. 2011

University of Minnesota, reading from Twin Cities, May, 2011 Readings at USC, Voices & Visions (w John Lithgow, 2010) etc.

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NYU – (with Jorie Graham) reading, 2011

Southhampton Writers Conference, July 24, 2008

New York University, October, 17, 2008

Columbia University, as Visiting Writer - readings

USC, February 21, 2008, with John Lithgow, in Voices & Visions series, “The Theatre of Language” (on YOUTUBE)

Hamline University, Oct. 24-26, 2007 Manhattanville College, Visiting Writer, Daylong workshop, 2007For book tour: in all cities: Barnes & Noble, Borders – in LA, Dutton’s, Skylight – also St. Paul and Mpls. and New York, etc. Philoctetes Center, NY (on YOUTUBE) Hartford, CT., Public Library, 2007

USC Board of Trustees’ Retreat, Palm Springs, Spring, 2007 – reading and presentation with other writers, USC CW faculty

University of Virginia, Reading -- Graduate Writing Program Also, lecture to Medical School on “The Heart” , Feb. 15, 2006 Bryn Mawr, reading, February 24, 2006 Reading with Mark Srand, introduced by Harold Bloom, March 6, 2006, Stella Adler Theater Space Reading, Baruch College, Harmon Visiting Writer event, March 14, 2006

Master Class, for Academy of American Poets, February 28, 2006 Library of Congress, April 16, 2005, Whitman College, Fisher Gallery, USC, LA Times Book Festival, 2005 Beyond Baroque, December 6, 2004 University of Nevada, February 10, 2004 Georgetown Univ., March, 2004 School of the Visual Arts, NYC, March 2004 Finalist – Poet Laureate, California

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Seattle and Portland Reading tour, April 21-23, 2004Reading for L.A. Institute for the Humanites, April 3, 2004 L.A. Times Book Festival, 2004, reading and panels, April 24-25 Southhampton Writers’ Conference: July, 2004

Many book tours for various books -- east and west coasts and Midwest –

readings at Adams House at Harvard University and for Grolier Books, Dartmouth, Hunter College, NYC, Cornelia Street Cafe, many book-clubs Readings in L.A. at Dutton’s, Skylight Books, Vromon’s, Barnes and Noble, etc. Reading at Ruminator Books, St. Paul, Minnesota -- all in 2003

Library of Congress, 2000 and 2002 California Governor Gray Davis, Rembrance Day ceremony for 9/11 victims, October 9, 2001; I read an original poem (published in USC Chronicle)

USC Provost’s DISTINGUISHED WRITERS SERIES, 2001

Fine Arts Workshop, Provincetown

Reading at the YMHA – NYC – readings (two) with Charles Wright and Gerald Stern Vermont Studio Center Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe Washington University, St. Louis Borders Bookstore, Los Angeles Duttons Bookstore, Los Angeles Vroman’s, Pasadena Skylight Books, Los Angeles Los Angeles Public Library, “Hot Off The Press” series

CONFERENCES L.A. Festival of Books – have appeared giving readings and on panels since beginning -- 2008 as well: panel and reading

Southhampton Writers Conference, 2008 Nebraska Writers Conference, 2006

Southhampton College Writers Conference, July, 2004 Favorite Poem Project – Summer Poetry Institute for Educators, Boston Univ. July 7-11, 2003 “Mind Over Matter: Science, Truth and Lies, presented by PEN Center West, USA PEN Partners – with K.C. Cole, Michael Schermer, Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Carol Muske-Dukes (panelist and moderator) September 14, 2003 Pasadena

LA Times Festival of Books, 2002 (participant since 1995—readings, panels, interviews) Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 2002 Idyllwild Arts Conference, 2001 (with Billy Collins) Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, 2000

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“2000 Voices, Conference of Poets,” Berry Performing Arts Center, Mahwah, New Jersey, April 7-9, 2000 “Conversation with Robert Pinsky,” Los Angeles Public Library, his lecture “What Shall We Teach the Young,” December, 1999 “Art and Consciousness,” UCLA, with Dr. Antonio di Masio M.D., Allen Tobin (head of Brain Research Center, UCLA) and Charles Ray, October, 1999 “Coversation With Adrienne Rich and Carol Muske,” The Lannan Foundation: Santa Fe, September, 1999 Prague Summer Writing Seminars, two weeks in Prague, teaching writing at Charles University through University of New Orleans, Summer, 1999 Aspen Writer’s Conference, June, 1999

“Poets Millennial Evening at the White House,” with President Clinton and Ms. Clinton, April 20, 1998 Favorite Poem Event, organized and moderated Favorite Poem Reading through Library of Congress and Poet Laureate’s office at LA Times Book Fair, April, 1998 (readers included: Mayor Richard Riordan, USC President Steven Sample, actor Edward James Olmos, The Nation editor, Victor Navasky and others. Videotape. Excerpts available on Favorite Poem website.)

FEATURES

Listing new features – upcoming soon

Los Angeles Magazine, September, 2007, “Down the River” -- POETS & WRITERS MAGAZINE, cover story, Summer, 2007

THE NEW YORKER, “Books from Our Pages”, 2003 TOP 100 Books of 2002, San Francisco Chronicle, for MARRIED TO THE ICEPICK KILLER (Most recent poem, featured THE NEW YORKER, Winter Fiction Issue, 2002, Dec. 16 & 23, "A Private Matter") New Yorker: BOOK CURRENTS, note: MARRIED TO THE ICEPICK KILLER, July 22, 2002 L.A. PUBLIC LIBRARY EVENT: BOOK ODYSSEY, DINNERS WITH 50 AUTHORS IN 50 LA HOMES, 2002, MAIN LIBRARY, CENTURY CLUB

USA TODAY, Jan. 2001, LARRY KING COLUMN, announcing the David Dukes Memorial Scholarship Fund

BACKSTAGE WEST, Sept. 26, 2002, MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS, re: MARRIED TO THE ICEPICK KILLER and other works, interview

Reviews (too numerous to mention) in The New York Times, LA Times, SF Chronicle, Boston Globe, Washington Post, San Diego Union, PEOPLE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Seattle Times, Mpls. Star-Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press (interview), etc. etc. "The Cruel Poetries of Life", PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, interview by Roger Gutman (with starred review), June 18, 2001

"Life After Death", PEOPLE Magazine, August 13, 2001

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IN A HEARTBEAT, Life Story, "O" (Oprah) Magazine, November, 2001 (poem included)

LA TIMES, "A Harsh Swift Clarity" , July 31, 2001, feature on my life and publication of LIFE AFTER DEATH

AN OCTAVE ABOVE THUNDER, poems,NY Times Book Review Most Notable Book, 1997-1998

Michigan Quarterly Review, Essay on my poetry and fiction by Lynn Emanuel, Fall, 1995

SAVING ST. GERM NY Times Book Review Most Notable Book, 1993 (December 5, 1993, listing)

“Surprise”: Poem reprinted (permission of New Yorker) in Yale Repertory Company’s theatre program of David Mamet’s “Oleanna,” December, 1993

LA Times Book Review: Interview, “Writer’s Dilemma,” by Michael Silverblatt, December 5, 1993

LA Times Magazine“: Novel L.A.,” by Nina J. Easton, featured SAVING ST. GERM with others, September 5, 1993

Writer’s Digest: Advice from the Pros: How to Finish Your Book,” interview quotes, April, 1993

Other 1993 features on novel and book of poems appeared in:Chicago Tribune, Orange County Register, LA Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, USC Trojan Family Magazine, cover of Verve literary magazine, cover of Caprice literary magazine

REVIEWS (of all books) in:

The New Yorker, NY Times Book Review, LA Times Book Review, Seattle Times, Newsday, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Mirabella, New Woman, Buzz, USA Today (Larry King Column), Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, Village Voice Literary Supplement, Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Liz Smith column, LA Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Orange County Register, Booklist, Seattle Times, The Seattle Post-Intelligence Intelligencer, etc.

VOLUNTEER TEACHING Walther School, Hollywood CA, teaching poetry to three and four year olds

I have taught a weekly writing workshop to ninth-graders from South Central LA through the USC Neighborhood Academic Initiative Program.

Volunteer literary work: helping stock a library for the Florence Crittenton Center (home for teenage mothers) in Los Angeles.

ADMINISTRATION

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Founded the University of Southern California’s PhD Program in Creative Writing and Literature, 2000Director of Program: 1998-2003

LITERARY REPRESENTATION

Molly Friedrich c/o Aaron Priest Agency 708 3rd Avenue New York, NY 10017 212-818-0344

FILM AND SCREENWRITING REPRESENTATION

Progessive Artists, Belle Swerdling

Second Novel, SAVING ST. GERM, optioned by Meg Ryan for a feature film. First novel optioned by Michelle Pfeiffer, etc., Green-lighted ORION

ADDRESS -- 1031 18th St. #5 Santa Monica, CA. 90403

Prior: 225 So. Lorraine Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 90004 (from 1985 to 2005)

Prior: 12621 Milbank St. Studio City, CA. 91401 (from 1983-85)

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