Top prof job May 27, 2009
" While the role only requires three lectures a year, "Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon and Christopher Ricks were very good at seeing students, organising other readings," he says. Ambitious professors can bring as much as they want to the role, he says. While the lectures are mostly devoted to works of English literature, Mr Paulin attended one of Mr Ricks' lectures which dealt with the lyrics of Bob Dylan (Ricks is a noted scholar of the American folk singer). Mr Paulin - a noted poet himself -... (BBC News -- UK)
A naturally gloomy nature May 12, 2009
She was showing the poems to her friend Philip Haas, director of the 1995 film Angels and Insects, who, in turn, brought them to the attention of his friend, New Yorker poetry editor and versifier Paul Muldoon. When Muldoon asked to see the poetry, Byatt tried to put him off with a series of flustered e-mails, saying she wasn't a poet and what she had written was for novelistic purposes only. (Globe and Mail)
America Celebrates St. Patrick's Day Mar 18, 2009
The White House said the leaders were invited back to the White House for an evening cocktail reception that will include performances from poet Paul Muldoon from Northern Ireland, and Celtic Thunder. Fountains at the White House in Washington also ran green for the day. (Click2Houston, TX)
Obama meets Irish leaders, emphasizes peace Mar 18, 2009
For the evening event, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon from Northern Ireland was to be featured. The White House also invited Maggie McCarthy, a traditional Irish dancer and musician from Cork, and vocal group Celtic Thunder. (MSNBC -- International)
Obama Welcomes Irish Leaders To White House Mar 18, 2009
The White House said the leaders were invited back to the White House for an evening cocktail reception that will include performances from poet Paul Muldoon from Northern Ireland, and Celtic Thunder. Copyright 2009 by. (KSBW 8, CA)
AROUND THE USA: Arts feel economic impact Mar 2, 2009
World-renowned poets the likes of former U.S. poet laureate Robert Hass, Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Paul Muldoon and Franz Wright, Allen Ginsberg and Derek Walcott have all attended past festivals. "The Dodge Poetry Festival is the single most successful gathering about poetry in my lifetime," said American poet Edward Hirsch. (USA Today -- Life)
Robert Fagles, translator of classics, dies Mar 30, 2008
Robert Fagles, the renowned translator of Latin and Greek whose versions of Homer and Virgil were unlikely best-sellers and became fixtures on classroom reading lists, died Wednesday at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, where he was an emeritus professor at Princeton University. " He also said he could not decide which of the epics was his favorite. Some days were Iliadic, he said - you felt you were in a war - and some were more like the Odyssey, when all you wanted to do was go home. But "The... (International Herald Tribune)
Robert Fagles, esteemed translator of classics, dies at 74 Mar 29, 2008
"He was a quiet man, diligent and decorous, yet one who was unexpectedly equal to the swagger and savagery of Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' in a way no one had managed before him," Princeton humanities professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon said in a statement. According to Fagles' publisher, Viking, his translations have sold more than 4 million copies worldwide and he was the rare scholar who enjoyed both an academic and popular audience. (NJ.com -- News)
Playing the common world's melody Mar 17, 2008
Here he joined that extraordinary band of "Northern poets" that included Michael Longley and Derek Mahon, and later on Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson and Medbh McGuckian. At St Columb's he had been taught Latin and Irish, and now at Queen's he took up Anglo-Saxon. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Dan Chiasson on 'The Best American Erotic Poems' Mar 15, 2008
" Contemporary poets have written excellent erotic poems, and some of them are included here: "I See a Man," by Carl Phillips; "The Couple," by Mark Strand; "The Encounter," by Louise Gl?ck. But you would learn more about eros, and more about poetry, if you read any single volume by any one of these poets, or by James Schuyler or Paul Muldoon; single poems in anthologies (Lehman allows only one poem per author, with the baffling exceptions being Emily Dickinson and Olena Kalytiak Davis) cannot... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Carla Bruni as member of a dead poets society Feb 12, 2008
Puzzled by these discordant notes, I consulted the poet Paul Muldoon, who also is the new poetry editor of The New Yorker, plays in a rock band and has had his own words set to music (although not yet, as far as I know, by Bruni, who features only dead poets of the 19th and early 20th centuries). What did he think about Bruni's choices, for a start. (International Herald Tribune)
Princeton life lists Jan 18, 2008
Paul Muldoon Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor and Chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts. 1. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Fierce, funny poems take prize double Jan 16, 2008
Other previous winners include Paul Muldoon, Don Paterson, Ted Hughes, George Szirtes and Carol Ann Duffy. O'Brien, who was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, worked as a schoolteacher from 1981 to 1989. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Poetry prize Jan 15, 2008
Other previous winners include Paul Muldoon, Don Paterson, Ted Hughes, George Szirtes and Carol Ann Duffy. . (Guardian Unlimited)
Labyrinth opens its doors after two-year wait Nov 14, 2007
But creative writing professor Paul Muldoon, director of the Lewis Center for the Arts, said in an email that he is "pleased to see a bookshop occupying so much real, and metaphorical, space on Nassau Street. Its positioning perfectly complements our mission to put the arts at the heart of the Princeton experience and we look forward to a long and, if I may say so, not too labyrinthine, relationship.". See related: (Oct. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
New arts center is on schedule Oct 13, 2007
"The infrastructure for some of these programs is massive," said Paul Muldoon. Arts programs such as theater and dance require a great deal of supplies, and the capital campaign will aim to "keep the cost down as much as we can for our students," Muldoon said. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Bahamas sets inquest date in death of Anna Nicole Smith's son Sep 25, 2007
Irish-born poet Paul Muldoon, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, has been named poetry editor of The New Yorker and will replace Alice Quinn, who is stepping down after 20 years at the post. Montreal band Patrick Watson has snagged this year's $20,000 Polaris Music Prize for its album Close to Paradise. (CBC.ca)
Muldoon to edit New Yorker poetry Sep 21, 2007
Paul Muldoon has been appointed the poetry editor of the New Yorker. He is due to take over from Alice Quinn, poetry editor at the weekly magazine for 20 years, in November. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Muldoon to be editor at New Yorker Sep 21, 2007
Poet and creative writing professor Paul Muldoon will soon add yet another title to his already well-adorned resume. Muldoon will succeed Alice Quinn as poetry editor of the New Yorker sometime before the end of the year. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Pulitzer winner to take over as New Yorker's poetry editor Sep 20, 2007
Paul Muldoon will become poetry editor of The New Yorker ... Alice Quinn, the poetry editor of The New Yorker, is stepping down after 20 years and will be succeeded in one of the most influential posts in the poetry world by Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Middlesex author to teach writing Sep 18, 2007
Paul Muldoon, chair of the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, described Eugenides as "that rare creature a great writer who is also widely admired, including by a generation only recently come to reading.". Eugenides taught at the University in 1999-2000, around the time that his 1993 debut novel "The Virgin Suicides" was made into feature film starring James Woods, Kathleen Turner and Kirsten Dunst. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Let's Make a Rackett Aug 16, 2007
From left: Stephen Allen, Nigel Smith, Paul Muldoon, Bobby Lewis and Lee Matthew are rockin' with Rackett. Set Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon's lyrics to "three-car garage rock" tunes, and the resultant musical anomaly is called Rackett ... "Paul is one of the least egomaniacal songwriters I have ever met. If we sing something wrong, chances are he's going to chime in and say 'Oh! An improvement.'" No, Paul Muldoon is not one for snobbery of any sort. (Lambertville Beacon, NJ)
Emory literary archives gain respect Jun 30, 2007
The university has the papers of many important names in 20th-century Irish poetry, such as Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon. Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney sold Emory about half his archive. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
QuickMuse.com prods poets to seek their 15 minutes of creativity Jun 26, 2007
In another, Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Muldoon restarts the same line three times. Gordon hopes QuickMuse will demystify poetry for readers and inspire new poets. (Boston Globe)
Writer's Paradise Jun 7, 2007
From there it's on to 185 Nassau St., home to Princeton University's creative writing department, whose faculty includes Joyce Carol Oates, John McPhee, Toni Morrison, Chang-rae Lee, C.K. Williams and Paul Muldoon. Those halls echoed with the words of E.L. Doctorow and Russell Banks in recent years. (Manville News, NJ)
No more rock, this poet's on a roll Jun 6, 2007
" However, Babstock is largely in accord with Paul Muldoon, the influential Irish-American poet, who says "a poem is a function of its own historical moment" - which means a lot of poetry can't help but embrace the unease and the lack of clarity of the contemporary moment. "We're not living in the same time as when, say, Jackson Pollock was dripping paint on canvases. We're not as obsessed with Picasso as Pollock was. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Yeah, yeah, yeah ... May 12, 2007
" crowed Ms. Goodwin. The evening began with hors d'oeuvres and Strawberry Fields martinis at two venues: the Berlind Theatre rehearsal room and a tent across Alexander Road on the Princeton University campus. Guests couldn't miss it. It was just down the path from the guitarist lounging by an Abbey Road street sign. Later, after dinner by Jimmy Duffy and Sons Catering and a concert in the Berlind Theatre, the tent would be used again, for dessert and dancing to the groove of Dr. K's Motown... (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
From the horse's mouth Apr 21, 2007
Fran Brearton admires the music, mischief and wit of Ian Duhig's latest collection, The Speed of Dark. Saturday April 21, 2007. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Ulster poetry speaks with rhyme and reason Apr 12, 2007
"Something remarkable happened there. Poets in Northern Ireland fulfilled their ancient role of speaking for the people with a wisdom and clarity not found in other public speech." On Tuesday and Wednesday, Washingtonians will have the luck to meet two generations of contemporary poets of Northern Ireland, in what the Northern Irish poet Paul Muldoon has called a "jamboree" of readings and reflections, at a two-day symposium at Georgetown University and at an evening of readings at the National... (Washington Times)
Invisible threads Mar 24, 2007
Renowned for his clever use of language, Paul Muldoon has been influenced by Eliot and Heaney as well as rock music and American films ... As a young boy growing up in rural County Armagh in the early 1960s, Paul Muldoon was given a school exercise: to write a poem about an Elizabethan fort on the Blackwater river ... Paul Muldoon was born in 1951 in Armagh where his mother was a teacher and his father worked in various agricultural jobs. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Spring Forward Mar 16, 2007
In addition to Mr. Evans' performance March 24, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, Howard G.B. Clark '21 Professor at Princeton University and chairman of the University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, will give a reading. "I asked Paul Muldoon to create new works, and respond to the idea of, how does the area shape your vision or affect your art?" Mr. Aubrey says ... March 24: public reception, 12:30 p.m.; reading by writers from U.S. 1 Poets and Ragged Sky Press, 1 p.m.;... (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
Out of the shadows Feb 24, 2007
At French customs recently, a young official looked at Hermione Lee's passport and cried out rapturously, "Ah, 'arry Pottaire!" And several years ago the small daughter of the poet Paul Muldoon begged her father to let her stay up because she didn't believe that a person called Hermione was coming to dinner. "It used to be a rare name and in a few years' time every second girl will be called it," says Hermione Lee, 59, the distinguished biographer, twice Booker Prize judge and last year's... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Composer Daron Hagen Feb 18, 2007
The program of the concert alone shows his versatility: a dramatic cantata in "Songs of Madness and Sorrow" (based in part on Michael Lesy's "Wisconsin Death Trip"); an instrumental chamber work in Piano Trio No. 3, "Wayfaring Stranger"; and an operatic scene in "Broken Pieces." Within the field Hagen is known for his operas, such as "Shining Brow" about architect Frank Lloyd Wright, many with librettos by the Irish poet Paul Muldoon. But the composer commands equal respect for his voluminous... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Ireland's 'rock'n'roll poet' returns Feb 10, 2007
The final poem in Paul Muldoon's latest book, "Horse Latitudes" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), is dedicated to the "memory of Warren Zevon." Zevon, of course, is the rock'n'roll singer-songwriter who succumbed to cancer in 2003 ... " Paul Muldoon reads his poetry Friday, Feb. 9 at 8 p.m. for the 29th annual Evening of Irish Music and Poetry sponsored by the Howard County Poetry ature Society (410-772-4568, www.HoCoPoLitSo.org) at The Jim Rouse Theatre in Columbia. In the second half of the show,... (Columbia Flier, MD)
David Orr on Robert Frost Feb 5, 2007
In a turn of events Frost would have relished, the Pulitzer Prize (an award he collected a record four times) went in 2003 to the Irish poet Paul Muldoon, who has declared Frost to be "the greatest American poet of the 20th century." If this is a peculiar and circuitous way for the influence of Frost's poetry to be felt on his native soil, well, as Frost put it, "the line will have the more charm for not being mechanically straight." And for a poet who has always been a figure of curves and... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Heaney wins 10000 TS Eliot prize Jan 16, 2007
Heaney triumphed with his collection District and Circle against a strong shortlist including work by Simon Armitage, Paul Farley, Paul Muldoon and Hugo Williams. Heaney, 67, who has been unwell recently and has not been undertaking public engagements, did not attend the ceremony where his victory was announced by Valerie Eliot, TS Eliot's widow. (Independent)
At last, Heaney takes poetry's biggest prize Jan 16, 2007
He beat off a strong challenge from fellow Faber poet and countryman - and friend - Paul Muldoon to win the 10,000 award, presented earlier this evening by TS Eliot's widow, Mrs Valerie Eliot. District and Circle was widely seen as a return to form from the poet Robert Lowell called "the best Irish poet since Yeats". (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
