Lamont Poet Paul Muldoon

On October 19, 2001, acclaimed Irish poet Paul Muldoon spent a full day on campus visiting classes and giving the first reading in that year's Lamont Poetry series.

Paul Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland and educated in Armagh and at the Queen's University of Belfast. He has lived in the United States since 1987. Formerly a student of Seamus Heaney at Queens College, Belfast, he is now the Howard G.B. Clark Professor of the Humanities and Creative Writing at Princeton University, as well as Chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, where he is an honorary Fellow of Hertford College. In 2007 he was appointed poetry editor of The New Yorker.

The author of such works as New Weather (1973), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), and The Annals of Chile (1994), Muldoon has been called the most charismatic poet of his generation. While at the Academy, Muldoon met with uppers who had been reading from his most recent book, Hay (1998), and with students in English 411, a creative writing course.