Carol Moldaw

Biography

Carol Moldaw’s seventh book of poetry, Go Figure (Four Way, 2024) is forthcoming. Her most recent book is Beauty Refracted (Four Way, 2018), and her work has been published in American Poetry Review, the New York Review of Books, and Poetry. 

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POETRY / Spring/Summer 2023

The Busker

By Carol Moldaw

The puppeteer darted in and had his black cloth strung waist-high,
pole to pole across the Métro car, before the doors even closed.
We were standing to the front of the carriage but a bit behind him
and could see only his right side, where a...

POETRY / Spring/Summer 2023

Northern California

By Carol Moldaw

Bulbous ropes of kelp the tide stranded.
Sandstone sea-break cliffs; eucalyptus groves.
A hammock strung between redwoods.

POETRY / Spring/Summer 2023

Painter and Model (I)

By Carol Moldaw

Because she paints barefoot, she’s barefoot in his painting
of her painting. Well, not painting, but modeling for him
as the painter she is and gazing toward her ostensible model,