Carol Muske-Dukes

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Carol Muske-Dukes (born 1945 in Saint Paul, Minnesota) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, critic, and professor, and the former poet laureate of California (2008–2011).[http://www.cac.ca.gov/programs/poetlaureate.php ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726233416/http://www.cac.ca.gov/programs/poetlaureate.php |date=July 26, 2013 }} Her most recent book of poetry, Sparrow (Random House, 2003), chronicling the love and loss of Muske-Dukes’ late husband, actor David Dukes, was a National Book Award finalist.{{cite web|last=Johnson |first=Pamela J. |url=http://college.usc.edu/news/stories/353/carol-muske-dukes-appointed-california-poet-laureate/ |title=Carol Muske-Dukes Appointed California Poet Laureate : News : USC Dornsife |website=College.usc.edu |date=2008-11-01 |accessdate=2015-12-01}}

Life

Muske-Dukes grew up in Forest Lake, Minnesota. She received B.A. English from Creighton University in 1967, and her M.A. in 1970 from San Francisco State University.{{cite web|url=http://college.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003564 |title=Faculty Profile : USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |website=College.usc.edu |date=2011-04-22 |accessdate=2015-12-01}} She has taught in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the University of California at Irvine, and the University of Virginia. She is one of the founding members of the USC PhD in Creative Writing & Literature, where she currently teaches.{{cite web|url=http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/26 |title=Carol Muske-Dukes | Academy of American Poets |website=Poets.org |date= |accessdate=2015-12-01}}

She has a daughter, Annie Muske-Dukes, who graduated from USC in May 2005, and she is the widow of actor David Dukes, who died in 2000.

In addition to her seven books of poetry, she has published four novels, the most recent of which, Channeling Mark Twain (2007), is about a woman poet who teaches poetry at a women's detention facility, just as the author herself did and the perspectives she gains from the poetry her students write.Kaminski, Margot, 2007 "Prison Poets Give Teacher New Outlook", San Francisco Chronicle, July 15, pp. M1-2. Her work has appeared in Antaeus, Ploughshares,{{cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/Authors/authordetails.cfm?prmauthoriD=1103 |title=Read By Author | Ploughshares |website=Pshares.org |date= |accessdate=2015-12-01}} Paris Review,[http://www.parisreview.com/viewissue.php/prmIID/137] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703104139/http://www.parisreview.com/viewissue.php/prmIID/137 |date=July 3, 2009 }} and The New Yorker.

Awards

1979 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America
1981 Guggenheim Fellowship[http://www.gf.org/fellows/10486-carol-muske] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604000123/http://www.gf.org/fellows/10486-carol-muske |date=June 4, 2011 }}
1999 Witter Bynner Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry
Ingram Merrill grant

Published works

Poetry collections

{{cite book| title=Camouflage: Poems| url=https://archive.org/details/camouflagepoems00musk| url-access=registration| publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| year=1975 | isbn=9780822952596}}
{{cite book| title=Skylight | url=https://archive.org/details/skylight0000mask | url-access=registration | publisher=Doubleday| year=1981 | isbn=9780385170871 }}
{{cite book| title=Wyndmere: Poems| publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| year=1985| isbn=978-0-8229-3503-2 }}
{{cite book| title=Applause| publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| year=1989| isbn=978-0-8229-3613-8 }}
{{cite book| title=Red Trousseau| publisher=Viking| year=1993| isbn=978-0-670-84508-8| url=https://archive.org/details/redtrousseau00caro}}
{{cite book| title=Octave Above Thunder: New and Selected Poems| publisher=Tandem Library| year=1997| isbn=978-1-4177-0418-7 }}
{{cite book| title=Sparrow: Poems | publisher=Random House, Inc.| year=2004| isbn=978-0-8129-6748-7 }}
Twin Cities. Penguin Books. May 31, 2011
Blue Rose. Penguin Books. April 3, 2018

Collaborative works

{{cite book| title= Rendezvous with Light: A Collection of Poetry and Photographs| publisher=Figueroa Press |year=2006|isbn=978-193280013-5}}

Novels

{{cite book| title=Dear Digby| publisher=Viking| year=1989| isbn= 978-0-670-82506-6 }}
{{cite book | title=Saving St. Germ | publisher=Viking | year=1993 | isbn=978-0-670-84047-2 | url=https://archive.org/details/savingstgerm00musk }}
{{cite book| title=Life After Death: A Novel| publisher=Random House| year=2001| isbn=978-0-375-50515-7| url=https://archive.org/details/lifeafterdeathno00musk}}
{{cite book| title=Channeling Mark Twain| publisher=Random House, Inc.| year=2008| isbn=978-0-8129-6749-4 }}

Essay collections

Women & Poetry: Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self (University of Michigan Press, 1997)
{{cite book | title=Married to the Icepick Killer: A Poet in Hollywood | publisher=Random House | year=2002 | isbn=978-0-375-50711-3 | url=https://archive.org/details/marriedtoicepick00musk_0 }}

Anthologies

{{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5a5_Ii2R3qUC&q=Carol+Muske&pg=PA199| chapter=Oblique Muscle| title=Title The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry |editor1=Michael Collier |editor2=Stanley Plumly| publisher=UPNE| year=1999| isbn=978-0-87451-950-1 }}
{{cite book| title=The Best American Poetry 2001|editor1=David Lehman |editor2=Robert Hass| publisher=Scribner poetry| year=2001| isbn=978-0-7432-0383-8 }}
{{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LBD3cfm2_dcC&q=Carol+Muske&pg=PA52| chapter=Passport: A Manifesto | title=180 more: extraordinary poems for every day |editor=Billy Collins | publisher=Random House, Inc.| year=2005| isbn=978-0-8129-7296-2 }}
{{cite book| title=American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets | editor=David Walker| publisher=Oberlin College Press| year=2006| isbn=978-0-932440-28-0 }}

References

Sources

[http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=carol+muske-dukes&Search_Code=GKEY^*&CNT=100&hist=1&type=quick Library of Congress Online Catalog : Carol Muske-Dukes]
[http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2003_cmuskedukes.html National Book Foundation : 2003 National Book Award Finalist: Poetry : Carol Muske-Dukes]

External links

[http://www.carolmuskedukes.com/ Author Website]
[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5001 Poetry Foundation : Carol Muske-Dukes]
[http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=21686 Random House : Author Page : Carol Muske-Dukes]
[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11748759 Audio: NPR Fresh Air : Interview: Carol Muske-Dukes, Channeling Mark Twain]
[http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw071220carol_muske-dukes Audio: Bookworm : Michael Silverblatt Interviews Carol-Muske-Dukes About Channeling Mark Twain : Dec. 20, 2007]
[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/books/review/Muske-Dukes.t.html Good Golly A Review by Carol Muske-Dukes in The New York Times Sunday Book Review : of The House on the Boulevard St. By David Kirby : April 29, 2007]
{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2eamXs1XxxkC&q=Carol+Muske&pg=PA169| title=Title Review: The great American poetry bake-off, second series | author=Robert Peters| publisher=Rowman & Littlefield| year=1982| isbn=978-0-8108-1502-5 }}