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SUMMARY:Paul Muldoon and Kevin Young Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nPaul Muldoon and Kevin Young will read a selection of poems by the leading poets of the Irish Literary Renaissance and their successors. \n\n\n\n\nPaul Muldoon and Grolier Club member\, Kevin Young will read a selection of poems by the leading poets of the Irish Literary Renaissance and their successors\, as well as their own work. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-exhibition-program-poetry-reading-tickets-1982037352075?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nPaul Muldoon was born in 1951 in Portadown\, County Armagh\, and was raised near The Moy\, in Northern Ireland. His mother was a schoolteacher and his father a farm laborer and market gardener. He is the author of a number of poetry collections\, including New Weather (1973)\, Why Brownlee Left (1980)\, Quoof (1983)\, Meeting the British (1987)\, New Selected Poems: 1968-1994 (1996)\, Hay (1998)\, Moy Sand and Gravel (2002)\, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize\, Horse Latitudes (2006)\, and most recently One Thousand Things Worth Knowing (2015)\, Selected Poems 1968-2014 (2016)\, and Frolic and Detour (2019). He has also published collections of criticism\, children’s books\, opera libretti\, song lyrics\, and works for radio and television. \nKevin Young is the author of many books of poetry\, including Night Watch (2025)\, Stones (2021)\, a finalist for the T.S. Eliot Prize; Brown (2018); Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995–2015; and Book of Hours (2014)\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Three of Young’s books form what he calls “an American trilogy”: To Repel Ghosts (2001)\, which explores the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat; Jelly Roll (2003)\, a collection of blues poems; and Black Maria (2005)\, a film noir. His first book of poetry\, Most Way Home (1995)\, was selected for the National Poetry Series by Lucille Clifton\, who described the collection as re-creating “an inner history which is compelling and authentic and American.” Young’s other collections of poetry include Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (2011)\, winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award; Dear Darkness (2008); and For the Confederate Dead (2007)\, winner of the Quill Award in Poetry and the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Excellence. \nYoung was born in Lincoln\, Nebraska. He studied under Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido at Harvard University. While a student at Harvard\, he became a member of the Dark Room Collective\, a community of African American writers. He was awarded a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and later earned an MFA from Brown University.
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