Carol Muske Dukes

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Nationality American Name Carol Muske-Dukes		Role Poet Children Annie Muske-Dukes

Alma mater Creighton University;San Francisco State University Spouse David Dukes (m. 1983–2000) Education San Francisco State University (1970), Creighton University (1967) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books Channeling Mark Twain: A, I Married the Icepick Killer: A P, Dear Digby, An Octave Above Thunder, Women and Poetry: Truth - Aut Similar People David Dukes, Bob Holman, Chris Abani, Simone Muench

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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). 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.

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Life

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

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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.

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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. Her work has appeared in Antaeus, Ploughshares, Paris Review, and The New Yorker,.

Awards

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1999 Witter Bynner Fellowship

1981 Guggenheim Fellowship

1979 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry

Ingram Merrill grant

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. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

David Lehman, Robert Hass, eds. (2001). The Best American Poetry 2001. Scribner poetry. ISBN 978-0-7432-0383-8. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

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

Carol Muske-Dukes Wikipedia

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