Renowned Irish poet Paul Muldoon to read for Writing Program Fall Reading Series Sept. 14

Paul Muldoon, “the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War” according to The Times Literary Supplement, will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14.

The reading, part of Washington University’s Writing Program Reading Series, is free and open to the public and takes place in the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

The Women’s Building is located immediately north of Olin Library, on the university’s Danforth Campus. A reception and booksigning will follow and copies of Muldoon’s books will be available for purchase. For more information, call (314) 935-7130.

Born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, Muldoon was educated in Armagh and at the Queen’s University of Belfast. From 1973 to 1986 he worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is now Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor at Princeton University as well as Chair of the University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. Between 1999 and 2004 he was also professor of poetry at the University of Oxford.

Muldoon’s major collections include New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001) and Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. His latest collection, Horse Latitudes, will be released this fall.

A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Muldoon received the 1996 American Academy of Arts & Letters award in literature. Other honors include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize and the 2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry.

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