Poet Paul Muldoon

paul muldoonPulitzer Prize winner Paul Muldoon will give a poetry reading on March 13 at 5:30 p.m. in Devlin Hall, room 101. An acclaimed poet, Muldoon was born in Portadown, County Armagh, in Northern Ireland, and is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Howdie-Skelp, Frolic and Detour, One Thousand Things Worth Knowing, Hay, Why Brownlee Left, and New Weather. His poetry has been translated into 20 languages. His poetry collection Moy Sand and Gravel won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize. He has also published works of criticism, opera libretti, books for children, song lyrics, and radio and television drama. He currently holds the Howard G.B. Clark ’21 chair in the Humanities at Princeton University. Among his other awards are the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, and the 2017 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Sponsor: BC Irish Studies Program.

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