Deep Dive Poetry in the PRS Library

This month featuring:

Carol Muske-Dukes is the former Poet Laureate of California. Her poetry collection Blue Rose (Penguin) was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. She was a professor at USC for thirty years, where she founded its PhD in Literature, and has authored nine collections of poetry. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker and the Atlantic, and she has taught poetry at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and at Columbia University.

Cecilia Woloch is the author of eight collections of poems. Her honors include fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, and inclusion in the Best American Poetry anthology series. She has taught poetry widely, including at USC. She is a 2026 Fulbright Fellow in Creative Writing in Kraków, Poland. Her work has been published in French, German, Polish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Romanes and Spanish.

Mandy Kahn is the author of three poetry collections. Her poems have been included in the Best American Poetry anthology, have been read on BBC Radio, and have been featured in the national newspaper columnAmerican Life in Poetry. She has given readings at Cambridge University, the Getty Museum, MOCA, the Barrick Museum, and the L.A. Times Festival of Books, and her work is the subject of the feature-length documentary Peace Piece: The Immersive Poems of Mandy Kahn.

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