Carol Muske-Dukes

Date: OCTOBER 13, 2017

Carol Muske-Dukes

www.carolmuskedukes.com (website)

BOOK PUBLICATIONS: Poetry (Carol Muske-Dukes)

BLUE ROSE, POEMS, pub date, April 3, 2018, Penguin Poets Series, Penguin (NY)

(June 6, 2014) Re-publication of seven of my previous books as electronic books by Open Road Media – now available

CAMOUFLAGE, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975

SKYLIGHT, Doubleday & Co., 1981

(reprinted in the Contemporary Classics Series, Carnegie-Mellon Press, 19

WYNDMERE, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985

APPLAUSE, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989

RED TROUSSEAU, Viking/Penguin, 1993

AN OCTAVE ABOVE THUNDER*, Selected and New Poems, Viking/Penguin, October,

1997(Selected and New Poems, hardcover from Carnegie-Mellon Press, 1997)

SPARROW, Random House, 2003

(second printing, December, 2003) National Book Award Finalist, 2003

Listed in New Yorker, Books from Our Pages, 2003

SPARROW, Random House, 2004 – paperback publication

NYT review, National Book Award finalist

TWIN CITIES, Penguin, (Penguin Poets Series) June, 2011 (Washington Post, Rumpus, Booklist)

CROSSING STATE LINES: an American Renga, co-edited w Bob Holman, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2011

BOOK PUBLICATIONS: Fiction (as Carol Muske-Dukes)

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

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

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

SAVING ST. GERM, * (Penguin paperback) 1995

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

LIFE AFTER DEATH, (paperback) 2002

CHANNELING MARK TWAIN, Random House, July, 2007

CHANNELING MARK TWAIN, paperback, forthcoming August 19, 2008

*New York Times “Most Notable” rating

BOOK PUBLICATIONS: Essays --Criticism

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

NY 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)

STAGED READINGS OF MY NEW PLAY, “I MARRIED THE ICEPICK KILLER”

“The play is a living kind of poem”, Hilton Als, Theatre, The NY’er

December 17, 2015, at Stella Adler Center, NYC, 7 pm.

September 11, 2015, HOWL Happening Theatre Space, 7 pm, East Village, NYC

GUILD HALL, East Hampton, NY – John Drew Theatre

Friday April 1, 2016 at 7:30pm for a JDT Lab presentation of a staged reading of I Married The Icepick Killer by Carol Muske-Dukes

Also- Guild Hall Play Development Fellowship – 2016

Film Options of my novels – list available (by Michelle Pfeiffer, Meg Ryan, etc.)

SCREENPLAYS – ELIXIR, ICEPICK, etc.

JOURNAL & Anthology publications, (poems) Recent

New York Times Magazine, forthcoming, “The Year the Law Changed”

New York Times “T” Magazine, “Live/Die: a Ghazal”, April 14, 2016

“No Hands” – The Paris Review

“Mayhem” - The Kenyon Review

“Live/Die” – The New York Times “T” Magazine ,4/17/16

“Culture” issue

“Orphanage” – The Yale Review

“Gun Control” – SLATE (Section 3, “Some Say”, included in Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now, Knopf, 2017)+ Bullets to Bells, forthcoming ANTHOLOGY

“Marie”, – PLUME Anthology 4

“Mark Twain’s Dream” – Smithsonian Magazine

“Failure to Thrive”, Poem-a-Day, Academy of American Poets

“Thomas at the Top” appeared as “Monticello” - Monticello in Mind: 50 American Poets on Jefferson, 2016

“A Girl’s Guide to the Epic” – Milk Literary Journal

“Kashmir Hindu Doctor” – The American Poetry Review

“Requiem for a Requiem” – Los Angeles Review of Books

“Audition” – Plume #68, 2017

“Wildfire Moon” - Poem-a-Day

INTERVIEW WITH CAROL MUSKE-DUKES, THE PARIS REVIEW, November, 2016, Daniel Johnson

UPCOMING READINGS, WRITERS CONFERENCES

SARATOGA SPRINGS WRITERS CONFERENCE, (SUMMER, 2018), WRITING FACULTY, with Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, etc.

Reading: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE WRITING PROGRAM, NYC, May 3, 2018

Reading: McNally/Jackson Bookstore, (with poet Jane Mead) – TBA

Visions & Voices (one of many V& V’s I’ve done) – February ?, “HILTON ALS”, a panel & Q & A, with Theatre Dean David Bridel, Maggie Nelson, etc. USC

Readings at the Broad Museum – upcoming – with the “Tour of the Imagination” course and USC/Broad partnership I established – 2015 to present

Readings at the LATimes Book Festival -+ panel – from my new book BLUE ROSE, April, 2018 ( BLUE ROSE published, April 3, 2018)

John Cheever at Sing Sing

By Carol Muske-Dukes

August 13, 2013

Reading, Lecture, March 25-27, 2015, UNIV. of NORTH DAKOTA with Roxanne Gay, Gish Gen, Bonnie Campbell.

(Invited to Read & Lecture at Ohio for their Anniversary Conference, but had already committed to North Dakota conference

Reading at Hotchkiss School, Connecticut: Sept. 25, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rki8r-N8_ug

Women’s Wear Daily, “True Grit” Interview w Carol Muske-Dukes

NYC Reading, at KGB Bar, with Howard Altman, April 16, 2014

A & E Biography Channel -- Carol Muske-Dukes & Timothy Steele on Roert Frost

“Little Star” literary journal, Benefit Reading at East Hampton Bookstore

WRITER FOR WRITERS AWARD, Poets & Writers, Barnes & Noble prize, presented awards dinner, NYC

Midwest Pick of the Publications – for Twin Cities, 2011

Pushcart Prize, 2011

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

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

Readings: NYU, Santa Cruz, Archer School, Maria Shriver’s Women’s Conference,

LA Times Book Festival, Santa Monica College

Judging – asked, turned down T. S Eliot Prize judgeship

Selection new Poet Laureate, Calif.

Library of Congress

Book tour: Minnesota bookstores, plus NY, California

Reviews HuffingPost – forthcoming

Poems – New Yorker, The Atlantic, Paris Review, etc.

Recipient: 2008 BOLD INK AWARD, from WriteGirl

Given a Bold Ink Writers’ Award with fellow honorees Diablo Cody, Calle Khouri,

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.

n traveling to over 40 cities across the U.S., including Los Angeles

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

Interview with Bill Moyers -- to be scheduled – re Poetry and Politics

GRANTS AND AWARDS:

California Poet Laureate, 2008-2011

Midwest Pick – Twin Cities, 2016

USC Awards: Raubenheimer, Phi Kappa Psi, (for each of my books)

Phi Beta Kappa, awarded at USC

Pushcart Prize, 2011

Guggenheim, NEA, Ingram Merrill, Castagnola, Poetry Soc. Of America

Bold Ink Award – from WriteGirl -- 2008

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, 3Anita Desai, Paul Auster, Edward Albee, etc.

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

BEST 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

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

JUDGE

National Book Awards, 1995 (David Lehman, head judge)

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award – judge for 5 years

Whiting Award Judge – invited to be judge, had to turn it down

Sarabande Books – judge, selection of poet - 2nd book of poems

LA Times Book Prize judge – several years

NEA judging panel, 1985

YMHA – Discovery Award judge

TEACHING

Reading & Master Class, UC Irvine, MFA Program, 2016

Master Class, Poets House, NYC – 2013

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

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

PUBLICATIONS: Works or Inclusions in Anthologies and Texts

LA Times, Op Ed

Wall Street Journal

New Yorker, Page Turner

LA Times book reviews of new books of poems - I am poetry critic there

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

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

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

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