Experts
Paul Muldoon
Poet
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Paul Muldoon Reads "The Coyote"
Veering down the track like a girl veering down a cobbled street in the meat-packing district, high heels from the night before, black shawl of black-tipped hairs… Read More
April 8, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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When the master was calling the roll At the primary school in Collegelands, You were meant to call back Anseo And raise your hand As your name occurred.. Read More
April 8, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Muldoon tells us about “Rackett.” Read More
April 8, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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It takes Muldoon ages to write a sentence. Read More
April 8, 2008 | In Arts & Culture, Inspiration & Wisdom
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What advice do you have for young poets?
Stop immediately. Read More
April 8, 2008 | In Arts & Culture, Inspiration & Wisdom
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Muldoon recommends Michael Dickman and Kathleen Graber, among others. Read More
April 8, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Muldoon believes that a great poem can come out of nowhere. Read More
April 8, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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What themes do you have left to explore in your poetry?
We are tiny little organisms that, if we are lucky, says Muldoon, “might have half dozen obsessions on which we can draw.” Read More
April 8, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Why repeat a word till it falls apart?
Repetition is just as important in politics as it is in poetry, Muldoon says. Read More
April 8, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Why do you use such esoteric words in your poetry?
“Why don’t you write some ordinary poems that the rest of us can understand,” someone wrote to Muldoon. Read More
April 8, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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It’s at the heart of his poetry, and Muldoon tells us of the best metaphors he’s come up with of late. Read More
April 8, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Whose poetry informs your work?
Everything from Irish song to Yevgeny Evtushenko. Read More
April 8, 2008 | In Arts & Culture, Inspiration & Wisdom
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Muldoon talks about how meeting the great poet Seamus Heaney. Read More
April 8, 2008 | In Arts & Culture, History
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How do you relate to the Irish Diaspora?
"Virtually every Irish person has a connection to the U.S." Read More
March 13, 2008 | In Identity
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Are you an American poet or an Irish poet?
Anyone can call Muldoon a poet. Read More
March 13, 2008 | In Arts & Culture, Identity
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Love and death kept Muldoon in Ireland, and prompted him to leave. Read More
March 13, 2008 | In World, Identity, Life & Death
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The Irish language was highly politicized in Muldoon's youth. Read More
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Growing Up in Northern Ireland
The political climate of Muldoon's childhood gave him a sense of unfinished business. Read More
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The Pulitzer Prize winning Irish poet reads his poem. Read More
January 31, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
Paul Muldoon is a writer, academic and educator, as well as Pulitzer Prize-winning poet from County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, 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. He won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for this work, Moy Sand and Gravel (2002).
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Paul Muldoon 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 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."
