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Paul Muldoon Oct. 29, 2015

October 29, 2015

Paul Muldoon is a Pulitzer-prize winning poet from Portadown, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland. Muldoon is the recipient of a number of awards, including an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature, 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 studied at Queen’s University in Belfast and worked as a producer for the BBC in Belfast until moving to the United States in the mid-1980’s. Muldoon was a Professor of Poetry at Oxford University from 1999 to 2004 and still teaches at Princeton University, where he has been since 1987. He has also been poetry editor of The New Yorker since 2007. The Time Literary Supplement described Paul Muldoon as “the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War.”

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