Carol Muske-Dukes
Carol Muske-Dukes
carolmd@usc.edu
(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
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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
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 Press, 19
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
*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, 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)
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 GUIDE
A Study Guide for Carol Muske-Dukes, “Our Side”, GALE Research, Vol. 24, 2018
PUBLICATIONS: ANTHOLOGIES
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
Writers’ Conference: Saratoga Springs, New York, July 1-6
Upcoming 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 -
Academy of American Poets, “Wildfire Moon” + commentary CMD – Nov. 14, 2016
April 14, 2016, “Live/Die”, poem in NYTimes Magazine
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
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
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
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
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.)
Admissions committee, Phd Program in CW/Lit, ongoing
Course development: “A Tour of the Imagination” in conjunction with the new Broad museum:
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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)
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.
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.
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.
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
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, 2015
Master 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
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
LA Times Arts & Culture: Books, Reviews
+ “The Big Smoke”, review, July 3, 2013
LA Times Arts & Culture, David Rakoff, review, Aug. 2013
Wall St. Journal, Craft of Writing column
PUBLICATIONS: Works or Inclusions in Anthologies and Texts:
BEST AMERICAN POETRY, 2012
BEST AMERICAN POETRY, 2013, 75th anniversary
PENGUIN ANTHOLOGY OF 20th 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
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
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
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: Poetry
HUFFINGTON 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
PUBLICATIONS: Chapters in Books
Magical Poetry Blimp Pilot’s Guide, chapter
“Carolyn Kizer: Her Life and Work,” ed. by Annie Finch, forthcoming
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.
“FRESH AIR”, with Terry Gross, NPR, July, 2007 (on website –
“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
New York Times Op Ed, "A Lost Eloquence", December 21, 2002
Follow-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
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
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 Times
Book 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
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
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.
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
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.
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, 2007
For 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
Seattle and Portland Reading tour, April 21-23, 2004
Reading 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
“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
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
Founded the University of Southern California’s PhD Program in Creative Writing and Literature, 2000
Director of Program: 1998-2003
LITERARY REPRESENTATION
Molly Friedrich
c/o Aaron Priest Agency
708 3rd Avenue
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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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