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Pulitzer Winner Paul Muldoon Reads Work At Fairfield University

FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- Paul Muldoon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and renowned author of more than 30 books, will offer a public poetry reading of his recent work at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13 at Fairfield University.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Paul Muldoon, will read recent works on Wednesday, Nov. 13 at Fairfield University.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Paul Muldoon, will read recent works on Wednesday, Nov. 13 at Fairfield University.

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The free event will take place in the Charles F. Dolan School of Business Dining Room.

“Like W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney before him, Muldoon conveys the dire complexities of Irish life in times of crisis while also revealing the mind-teasing, soul-stirring powers of language,” said Nels Pearson, associate professor of English at the university.

Muldoon has lived in the United States since 1986. He is now the Howard G.B. Clark ’21 Professor at Princeton University. In 2007 he was appointed poetry editor of The New Yorker.

His main collections include “New Weather” (1973), “Why Brownlee Left” (1980), “Hay” (1998), “Moy Sand and Gravel” (2002) and “Maggot” (2010). “Maggot” was named best book of the year on several lists.

“The most formally ambitious and technically innovative of modern poets, he writes poems like no one else,” wrote Nick Laird in The New York Review of Books.

For more information on this event, email Elizabeth Hastings or call her at 203-254-4000, ext. 2688.

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