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MFA Visiting Writers Series: Paul Muldoon

Date:
Location:
Zoom
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Paul Muldoon, Irish Poet

Paul Muldoon

Thursday October 22nd, 2020, 7:00pm
Free and open to the public. Registration Link:  https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_n2BDDZ2jRQyArTyQglZhuQ
 
The English Department’s MFA in Creative Writing in the College of Arts & Sciences sponsors the series. Given the health risks associated with live readings, organizers are taking this mainstay of campus literary life online.
 
“This shows our determination to continue the high calibre and diverse guests our Visiting Writers Series has become known for, in a virtual format,” said Frank X Walker, the new director of Creative Writing. “We’ll also be adding master classes and workshops to ensure a lively literary scene at UK despite COVID-19.”
 
The events will be held via Zoom webinar with a reading and question-and-answer session from participants.
 
Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 to 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. He has also served as president of the Poetry Society (UK)[3] and Poetry Editor at The New Yorker.