Pulitzer Prize-winning poet to read at University of Richmond March 30

March 12, 2009

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon will read at the University of Richmond March 30 at 8 p.m. in Weinstein Hall's Brown-Alley Room. The program is part of the Department of English's Writers Series.

The author of 10 books of poetry, including "Moy Sand and Gravel," which won both the Pulitzer and Griffin International prizes, Muldoon is also winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize in England, the Irish Times Poetry Prize, the European Prize for Poetry and the Shakespeare Prize. He also published a play, "Six Honest Serving Men," and two operas.

Muldoon is the Howard G.B. Clark, '21, Professor at Princeton University and poetry editor of The New Yorker. He previously worked for the BBC in Belfast as a radio and television producer, moving to the United States in 1987. For five years he was professor of poetry at Oxford University, and his lectures were collected in "The End of the Poem."

The program is free and open to the public. For more information, call (804) 289-8287.