Untitled (After Bosch and Boldini), 2015, by Cecily Brown. Cover design by Ryan Murphy.

 

Carol Moldaw is an American poet and the author of seven books of poetry including Go Figure (Four Way Books, forthcoming 2024) and Beauty Refracted (Four Way Books, 2018). The recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship, she lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

“Several different forms of maturity — emotional, artistic, religious — come together in Moldaw’s poems, which repeatedly achieve lyric junctures of shivering beauty. Her vision is like that of a seasoned naturalist observing the play of life’s impulses over the crust of the earth.”
— The New Yorker

Watch Carol read at the 2021 International Poets & Writers Conclave.

Hear Carol read her poem “Struck Dumb” via Subtropics.

Read Tyler Mills’s 2020 interview with Carol in On the Seawall