Carol Muske-Dukes

Carol Muske-Dukes
Born	Carol Muske 1945 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Creighton University; San Francisco State University
Spouse	David Dukes
Children	Annie Muske-Dukes

Carol Muske-Dukes (born 1945 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, critic, and professor, and the former poet laureate of California (2008–2011).^[1] 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.^[2]

Life

She received B.A. English from Creighton University in 1967, and her M.A. in 1970 from the San Francisco State University.^[3] 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.^[4]

She has a daughter, Annie Muske-Dukes, who graduated from USC in May 2005,^[2] 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.^[5] Her work has appeared in Antaeus, Ploughshares,^[6] Paris Review,^[7] and The New Yorker,.

Awards

1999 Witter Bynner Fellowship
1981 Guggenheim Fellowship^[8]
1979 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry
Ingram Merrill grant^[4]

Published works

Poetry collections

Sparrow: Poems. Random House, Inc. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8129-6748-7.
Octave Above Thunder. Tandem Library. 1997. ISBN 978-1-4177-0418-7.
Red trousseau. Viking. 1993. ISBN 978-0-670-84508-8.
Applause. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-8229-3613-8.
Wyndmere: poems. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-8229-3503-2.
Skylight. Doubleday. 1981.
Camouflage: poems. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1975.

Collaborative works

Rendezvous with light: A Collection of Poetry and Photographs: Carol Muske-Dukes and Robbie Kreinces (Figueroa Press, 2005)

Novels

Channeling Mark Twain. Random House, Inc. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8129-6749-4.
Life after death: a novel. Random House. 2001. ISBN 978-0-375-50515-7.
Saving St. Germ. Viking. 1993. ISBN 978-0-670-84047-2.
Dear Digby. Viking. 1989. ISBN 978-0-670-82506-6.

Essay collections

Married to the Icepick Killer: a poet in Hollywood. Random House. 2002. ISBN 978-0-375-50711-3.
Women & Poetry: Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self (University of Michigan Press, 1997)

Anthologies

Michael Collier, Stanley Plumly, eds. (1999). "Oblique Muscle". Title The new Bread Loaf anthology of contemporary American poetry. UPNE. ISBN 978-0-87451-950-1.
David Lehman, Robert Hass, eds. (2001). The Best American Poetry 2001. Scribner poetry. ISBN 978-0-7432-0383-8.
Billy Collins, ed. (2005). "Passport:A Manifesto". 180 more: extraordinary poems for every day. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8129-7296-2.
David Walker, ed. (2006). American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets. Oberlin College Press. ISBN 978-0-932440-28-0.

References

↑ Archived July 26, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
1 2 Johnson, Pamela J. (2008-11-01). "Carol Muske-Dukes Appointed California Poet Laureate : News : USC Dornsife". College.usc.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
↑ "Faculty Profile : USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences". College.usc.edu. 2011-04-22. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
1 2 "Carol Muske-Dukes | Academy of American Poets". Poets.org. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
↑ Kaminski, Margot, 2007 "Prison Poets Give Teacher New Outlook", San Francisco Chronicle, July 15, pp. M1-2.
↑ "Read By Author | Ploughshares". Pshares.org. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
↑ Archived July 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ Archived June 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.

Sources

External links

California Poet Laureate

Ina Coolbrith Henry Meade Bland John S. McGroarty Gordon W. Norris Charles B. Garrigus Quincy Troupe Al Young Carol Muske-Dukes Juan Felipe Herrera

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 92243860 LCCN: n84041535 ISNI: 0000 0001 0924 7825 BNF: cb12035531x (data)

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