Poetry @ Princeton

MARCH 27 | 12:00 PM | 144 Louis A. Simpson International Building Translation Lecture Series: Barry McCrea The next guest for the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication lunch lecture series will be Barry McCrea, Notre Dame, on "Is there such a thing as untranslatable poetry? The case of the Irish Language." McRea will be a 2017-18 […]

Paul Muldoon Selected Poems, 1968-2014 Tuesday, March 28th @ 6PM ------------------------------------------------ Please join us for a reading with Paul Muldoon, “the most significant English-Language poet born since the second world war.” (TLS) Fellow poet Michael Dickman will introduce his colleague. Full event details Paul Muldoon is the author of twelve previous books of poetry, including […]

Paul Muldoon: Selected Poems, 1968 – 2014 3/28 - 6 pm - Labyrinth Books Join us for a reading with Paul Muldoon, “the most significant English-Language poet born since the second world war.” (TLS) Fellow poet Michael Dickman will introduce his colleague. Selected Poems 1968–2014 offers forty-six years of work drawn from twelve individual collections […]

Benjamin Bagby, Anglo-Saxon Harp and Voice THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2017, 6:00 PM $25 General, $10 Students PROGRAM “Beowulf” – the epic book in a multi-media performance with Bagby playing the Anglo-Saxon harp and singing/reciting the Beowulf story. Bagby will be joined by Experiential Designer and Adobe Creative Resident  Craig Winslow who will bring the colorful […]

Fund for Irish Studies: “Words for Music, Perhaps” A Day-long Symposium on Irish Lyric and Song Fri., March 31 from 9:45 a.m.-6 p.m. “Words for Music, Perhaps” features panel discussions by renowned scholars Matt Campbell, Aileen Dillane, Paul Hamilton, Barry McCrea, Maureen McLane, Paul Muldoon, Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, Iarla O’Lionaird, and Dan Trueman, along with Irish […]

In this paper, Emily Dalton read Chaucer’s late fourteenth-century dream-vision poem The Book of the Duchess as an investigation of the creative possibilities of citation and the degree to which literary genres do or do not travel across the Channel. She argues that the poem’s orientation toward proper names and the possibility of their translation shed […]

Poet John Ashbery and screenwriter/director Jim Jarmusch read from their work on Wednesday, April 19, at 4:30 p.m. in McCosh 50* on the Princeton University campus. Both writers will be introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Professor of Creative Writing Paul Muldoon. The event, part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, is free and open to […]

Brad Gooch & Paul Muldoon in Conversation Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love Wednesday, April 26th @ 6PM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Smash Cut, Flannery, and City Poet delivers the first popular biography of Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet revered by contemporary Western readers. Pulitzer Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon […]

Poet Saeed Jones and seniors in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University read from their work at 6:00 p.m. at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street in Princeton. Featured student readers are Rebecca Bedell, Lizzie Buehler, Will Lathrop, Shannon Osaka, Emily Redfield, and Julia Wang. The C.K. Williams Reading Series, […]