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The 2010 Turnbull Poetry Lecture

Paul Muldoon

Tuesday, February 9^th
6:30 P.M.

Paul Muldoon, described by the Times Literary Supplement as “the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War,” will deliver the 2010 Turnbull Lecture at Johns Hopkins.

Mr. Muldoon is the Howard G. B. Clark ‘21 Professor at Princeton University and Chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts, as well as the 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. His collections of poetry include New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001) and Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. His tenth collection, Horse Latitudes, appeared in the fall of 2006 and was widely praised. His Oxford Lectures were also published in 2006 under the title The End of the Poem.

Recent awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature for 1996, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, the2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry, and the 2006 European Prize for Poetry.