Help Choose Nine Women to Run the World
I recently came up with an idea: that it would be revelatory to ask as many women who were willing to “nominate” our next world leaders to choose who, among women, they’d put forward to lead the world....
View Article“The Nine” Results
We had many worthy nominations, from Barbara Boxer to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Poet Carol Muske-Dukes now presents a truly diverse and capable team. (Now how to give them the authority they deserve?)
View ArticlePoetry Friday: A Brief Tribute to Sylvia Plath
By Carol Muske-Dukes As her October 27 birthday approaches, Sylvia Plath remains for me utterly approachable.
View ArticleMy Singing Valentines
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.
View ArticlePoetry Sunday: From Carol Muske-Dukes, An Appreciation of Adrienne Rich
We'd like to share with you this loving tribute to the late Adrienne Rich by WVFC's own Carol Muske-Dukes, Rich's friend and former Poet Laureate of California. It appears in today's Los Angeles Times.
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