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California Poet Laureate Muske-Dukes at the National Mall
USC Dornsife’s Carol Muske-Dukes, California’s poet laureate, will read from her two most recent books during the 11th annual National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, to be held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Sept. 23 to 25.
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are honorary chairs for the event.
“I’ve given readings at the Library of Congress in the past, and was included in a small group of poets invited to the Clinton White House some years ago,” said Muske-Dukes, professor of English and creative writing. “But the idea of reading on the National Mall is simply dazzling and I hope that I will manage to read well and make my Mom proud.”
Muske-Dukes credits her mother, Elsie Muske, 95, who recited poetry to her daughter beginning in childhood, for her inspiration as a poet.
On Sunday, Sept. 25, at 4:40 p.m., Muske-Dukes will read from Twin Cities (Penguin Publishing, 2011), her eighth book of poems, and Crossing State Lines: An American Renga (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), which she co-edited with Bob Holman. Her book signing will take place from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.
The free festival is a whirlwind of readings
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Photo credit: Kathy Muske
Carol Muske-Dukes silt a former Poet Laureate of California, and inclusion book prescription poems, Blue Rose, obey a 2019 Pulitzer Guerdon short-list finalist.
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