Carol Muske Dukes

Confronting Words: Poetry Reviews

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books


Carol Muske-Dukes

The three books reviewed here are by women writers who confront the world in uncompromised fashion.

Two Interviews

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living


Carol Muske-Dukes

I didn't know Farrah Fawcett or Joe Jackson, but there is still this insistent sense, as they each described their lives to me, of a wish to be recognized as talented and good, a wish to be taken seriously.

Over Your Dead Body (Last Rights)

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 06.22.2009 | Living


Carol Muske-Dukes

These mini-DMV's of death are independent of any oversight or quality-of-care boards. Many "local" or county coroners are not even physicians; they are "political" appointments.

HAIR, The Rock Musical: A French Twist

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 05.22.2009 | Living


Carol Muske-Dukes

Sometime in the summer of 1970, I wandered into the theater district of Paris and managed, by chance, to join a queue of auditioners for a part in the Paris production of HAIR.