International Poetry Forum Presents: Paul Muldoon

A special reading with Irish poet Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer Prize winner and past Oxford Professor of Poetry and Ireland Professor of Poetry.
About this Event

The International Poetry Forum is honored to welcome back Irish poet Paul Muldoon for a special reading at Carnegie Lecture Hall (Oakland) on Friday, March 12, 2027, 7:00PM, in partnership with and in conjunction with a visit to the .

Paul Muldoon is one of the most decorated writers in the world today. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the T.S. Eliot Prize, and the Griffin Poetry Prize (among many other honors), Muldoon has served as the Ireland Professor of Poetry, the Oxford Professor of Poetry, the poetry editor for The New Yorker, as well as the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.

Muldoon previously visited the International Poetry Forum in 2008, when he was recipient of the Forum's , an award also granted to fellow Irish poets Seamus Heaney and Eavan Boland, among many others.

Part of the International Poetry Forum's 60th anniversary season.

About Us:

Founded in 1966, the Pittsburgh-based International Poetry Forum is a nonprofit organization that has hosted readings and educational programs by more than 800 poets and performers from 50+ countries. Alumni of our reading series include legends like Seamus Heaney, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mary Oliver, Chinua Achebe, Kurt Vonnegut, Grace Kelly, Gregory Peck, James Earl Jones, and Queen Noor of Jordan.

Parking is located at Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and the surrounding Oakland neighborhood. For detailed information on parking and bus routes, visit here.

This reading is made possible by generous support from Pennsylvania Creative Industries. Author photo credit Christine Harris.