• Carol Muske-Dukes is part of the curatorial team of America: Now + Here and will be directing the poetry aspect along with Bob Holman.
David Dukes Memorial
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The scholarship, established in memory of the late actor David Coleman Dukes, is awarded annually to a third-year Theater Arts student working toward a career in stage acting. A bronze plaque commemorating the scholarship benefit held in David Coleman Dukes' name can be seen in the lobby of the Bing Theater, off Queen's Court on the USC campus.
— Madeline Puzo, Dean, USC School of Theatre
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• January 31, 2011 at 7:00PM Dancing the Poem (Visions and Voices - The USC Arts and Humanities Initiative)
USC University Park Campus
Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC)
Grand Ballroom, Section A
Free Admission
"The Get Lit Players—teen poets from Los Angeles—and USC dancers led by USC dance director Margo Apostolos will enact and dance both traditional and spoken-word poems. Poems by contemporary poets, including Joy Harjo, Robert Pinsky and others, will be read aloud by California poet laureate Carol Muske-Dukes, then interpreted by the Get Lit Players and danced in a variety of styles, including jazz, tap, modern and hip hop. The event will demonstrate the creative relationship between dance and language. A great poem may dance on the page; this event will translate that choreography of our imaginations into reality. The performance will be followed by a discussion."
• April is National Poetry Month. The Women's Conference and California's First Lady Maria Shriver want to honor the importance of art, creativity and poetry in our lives. During April, they'll be sharing some of their favorite poems. They have chosen to feature two of Carol Muske-Dukes' poems (Twin Cities and Boy) here.
Articles
• New Huffington Post Blog Entry -
OTHER AS ANIMAL: a meditation >>
• Voice of America -
US National Poetry Month Encourages Reading, Writing Verse >>
• USC College News & Events: All Were Aboard on the Magic Poetry Bus >>
Deliberation on a Criminal Poet
• Diana Arterian, the Assistant Director of the Magic Poetry Bus state project, has recently designed and produced a chapbook entitled "Deliberation on a Criminal Poet," which chronicles the steps governmental powers took in order to silence poets' voices through imprisonment, torture and/or extermination.
The chapbook is a dos-à-dos piece; the front portion includes brief biographies on the poets (written by Ms. Arterian), as well as a poem of each writer. The back section contains a small group of poems written in response by Ms. Arterian, each of which involves a character in the poet's life "deliberating" on their welfare. The poets discussed are Nâzim Hikmet (of Turkey), Federico García Lorca (of Spain), Alicia Partnoy (of Argentina), Osip Mandel'stam and Irina Ratushinskaya (both of Russia).
Diana Arterian is currently earning her MFA in poetry writing at the California Institute of the Arts, where she is an honored recipient of the Beutner Family Award.
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