The Poet and the Poem
2026-27 Series

Featured Carol Moldaw

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Carol Moldaw is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her seventh book of poetry, Go Figure, was published by Four Way Books in 2024. Her work has been translated Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish; a volume of her selected poems translated into Chinese is forthcoming from Lijiang Publishing House in Beijing in 2026. Her novella, The Widening (Etruscan Books, 2008) will be reissued in 2028 for its 20th anniversary. In 2022, Moldaw was an artist-in-residence at the Merwin Conservancy in Maui, and she is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Marfa Writer’s Residency, an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. Her work is published widely in journals, including American Poetry Review, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, The Massachusetts Review, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Poetry, Subtropics, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Yale Review. About Go Figure, Jesse Nathan wrote in McSweeney’s, “The fierceness of love in these poems, and the lithe music of it, is part of what makes them powerful.” As Frieda Gardner observed in The Women’s Review of Books, “She courts revelation... in a voice variously curious, passionate, surprised, meditative, and sensual.” Moldaw lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and teaches privately.

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