Faculty/Staff Daily Digest

Paul Muldoon  

 

The University of Connecticut’s English Department and The Hartford are 

pleased to announce that Paul Muldoon, the 51st Annual Wallace Stevens Poet, 

will give a reading from his work on April 10, 2014.

 

Mr. Muldoon will read at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 10 at the Alumni Center, 

2384 Alumni Drive, at the UConn Storrs Campus. Both readings are free and 

open to the public. 

 

The Times Literary Supplement has called Muldoon “the most significant 

English-language poet born since the Second World War.” His many awards 

include the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin International Prize for Excellence in 

Poetry, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, and the European Prize for 

Poetry. The author of over a dozen volumes of poetry and criticism, 

Muldoon’s writing is typified by its brilliant wit and a dazzling reinvention of 

poetic forms.

 

Muldoon was born in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and now resides 

in the United States where he is poetry editor of The New Yorker and Howard 

G. B. Clark ’21 Professor at Princeton University. The Wallace Stevens Poetry 

Program began in 1964 with funding from The Hartford to honor Modernist 

master poet Wallace Stevens, a former Vice President of The Hartford.  In the 

last half century, the Program has brought a roster of the most important national

and international poets to Connecticut.

 

This year’s Program is sponsored by The Hartford, as well as the 

University of Connecticut’s English Department, and the UConn Humanities 

Institute in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. For more information, 

please visit the UConn Creative Writing Program website at 

www.creativewriting.uconn.edu