Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Paul Muldoon to Give a Reading at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, will give a reading on Thursday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The reading, sponsored by the Edward Callahan Support Fund for Irish Studies and the Creative Writing Program, is free and open to the public.

Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated in Armagh and at the Queen's University of Belfast. From 1973-86 he worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Since 1987 he has lived in the U.S., where he is now Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor at Princeton University and Chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts. In 2007, he was appointed poetry editor of The New Yorker. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, where he is an honorary Fellow of Hertford College.

Muldoon's main collections of poetry are 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), Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), Horse Latitudes (2006), and Maggot (2010).

Muldoon has received numerous awards including an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature in 1996, 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 has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as "the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War."