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My Singing Valentines

By Carol Muske-Dukes
By Carol Muske-Dukes

I remember standing up by my desk and laughing. It was Valentine's Day and someone had sent me a singing message, which I would return, again and again and again.

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Poetry

Poetry Friday: Lisa Russ Spaar

By Women's Voices For Change
Sometimes it feels as if all the buzz in literature, especially poetry, is about youth. Who won the Yale Younger Poets Award? The XYZ Fellowship for Writers Under Thirty? That’s only one of the reasons we’re thrilled for Lisa Russ Spaar, who nearly a decade after being nationally recognized as an “emerging writer” by the Rona Jaffe Foundation, has not…
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Proof of the Poet as Activist: Two Carol Muske-Dukes Projects

By Women's Voices For Change
In accepting the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, Adrienne Rich delivered an address entitled “Poetry and Commitment.” Well, in living her life as a woman, poet, teacher, citizen, Carol Muske-Dukes daily enacts the kind of commitment that turns intention into action—action that is poetic for its unguarded intentions. This coming Sunday evening, October 4, at…
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Poetry

Poetry Friday: A reflection and a celebration.

By Women's Voices For Change
When “Twin Cities” by our own Carol Muske-Dukes appeared in the July 6 issue of The New Yorker, no one was surprised.  Carol’s stature as a poet has long been established and her appointment last December as poet laureate of California only served to make concrete what she has always demonstrated:  her leadership, her activism as a poet-citizen (at the…
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