Paul Muldoon Poetry Reading

Paul Muldoon has been called “the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War.”  Originally from Northern Ireland, Muldoon has lived in the States since 1987.  He is Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities at Princeton and Director of the Lewis Center for the Arts.

The Lewis Center website lists some of his more notable honors: “A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature for 1996. Other recent awards are the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry, and the 2006 European Prize for Poetry.” He is also the poetry editor of The New Yorker.

This talk is sponsored by the Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Chair in English.