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. Sept. 14. The reading, part of the University’s Writing Program Reading Series, is free and open to the public and takes place in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge.
A reception and booksigning will follow and copies of Muldoon’s books will be available for purchase. For more information, call 935-7130.
Born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, Muldoon was educated in Armagh and at the Queen’s University of Belfast. From 1973-1986 he worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the BBC. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is now the Howard G.B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, as well as chair of the University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. Between 1999-2004 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.