links to Poems


”Potpourri,” Persimmon Tree

”Painter and Model (I),” Poetry Society of America, with commentary on the poem

”Keisaku Palm,” Subtropics

”Game Face,” Vox Populi

”First Days at the Conservancy,” Plume, with commentary on the poem

“From the Roof Deck,” Poetry

“Night Piece,” Harvard Review

“Mindfulness Training in La Jolla,” Plume

“Shoe Box,” The Yale Review, Poem of the Week

“Eye to Eye,” The Account

“Meditation in the Open-Air Garage,” Poem-A-Day, The Academy of American Poets

“My Animus Prods Me,” “Every Moment,” and “Not a Clue,” Green Mountains Review

“Meditation on the Veranda,” Poem-A-Day, The Academy of American Poets

”Richter Scale,” “Reverberance,” and “No News is Good News,” On the Seawall

“Argument,” “Making a Case,” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact

“On Being Mused Upon,” Plume

“Scales,” Plume

“You Have the Tools, Use Them,” Los Angeles Review

“Go Figure,” Zocola Public Square

“Arthritis,” Poem-A-Day, The Academy of American Poets


audio + video

The Poets Corner, 2026. Winter Break: a reading with Carol Moldaw, Jeffrey Harrison, and Didi Jackson. With thanks to Meg Weston for having me on her wonderful series!

Reading at the 2024 Southern California Poetry Festival (begins at 47:25)

Harry’s Poetry Hour reading with Harry E. Northup

Audio of ”First Days at the Conservancy,” via Plume (scroll down)

2021 International Poets & Writers Conclave reading

“Meditation on the Veranda” and other poems: Reading at Upaya Zen Center

”For a Lost Fragment” with commentary by Tracy K. Smith, The Slowdown, 2019

“Arthritis,” audio recording via the Academy of American Poets, 2018

Poems from So Late, So Soon and Beauty Refracted, audio recording, Vermont Studio Center Reading Series, 2016

Poems from So Late, So Soon, audio recording, Vermont Studio Center Reading Series, 2010

Poems from So Late, So Soon, audio recording at Reed College, 2010

interviews, etc.


Interview with Jesse Nathan for McSweeney’s Short Conversations with Poets

The Merwin Conservancy Conversation with Nina Peláez

Interview with Sheng Yu of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, translator of Go Figure and others of Moldaw’s works into Chinese, at Vesto

Interview with Carly Newfeld for KSFR’s The Last Word

The Seminary Co-op Q & A

Interview with Olivia Burnett, Subtropics

Review of Heard/Hoard by Atsuro Riley by Carol Moldaw, Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion

Interview with Tyler Mills in On the Seawall

Bad Girls: An Interview with Carol Moldaw and Abigail DeWitt at VIDA