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.

Go Figure is now available
from Four Way Books!

“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

"The fierceness of the love in these poems, and the lithe music of it, is part of what makes them powerful. Love for a child, love for dying elders, love for the burning world where ‘Bear scat gums the long grass,’ where ‘the apricot bears fruit,’ a world where ‘inside windswept is wept.’ Part of the moral fire in the work is environmentally minded. Part of it is addressed to a sexist literary and artistic world. And the strange beauty of these poems is in the ease of the forms . . . "
— Jesse Nathan’s Short Conversations with Poets at McSweeney’s

Read Carol’s conversation with Sheng Yu, translator of Go Figure and other poems.

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.