THE CARRIAGE HOUSE POETRY SERIES
CELEBRATES 25 YEARS (1998-2023)
25th Anniversary Celebration and Reading by Paul Muldoon
September 26, 2023, 7:30 PM
(click the link above to watch the video)
On Tuesday, September 26th, we celebrated our 25th anniversary with a special reading by Paul Muldoon (called by the Times Literary Supplement "The most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War.")
Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh, Ireland in 1951. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he has taught at Princeton University for thirty-five years. He is the author of fourteen full-length collections of poetry, as well as numerous smaller collections, works of criticism, opera libretti, books for children, song lyrics, and radio and television drama. His poetry has been translated into twenty languages. He served as Oxford Professor of Poetry (1999-2004) and as poetry editor of The New Yorker (2007-2017).
Among his awards are the 1972 Eric Gregory Award, the 1980 Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, the 1994 T.S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2006 European Prize for Poetry, the 2015 Pigott Poetry Prize, the 2017 Queens Gold Medal for Poetry, and the 2020 Michael Marks Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
The evening was a fantastic after-Covid-come-back and 25th anniversary celebration for the Carriage House Poetry Series! Paul Muldoon was absolutely brilliant—stunning poems with witty and profound
comments. About 65 people attended, and the
old Carriage House rocked with warmth, sharing, and poetry! Sincerest
thanks to all who were there, and extra-special thanks to Paul Muldoon.
Thanks also to Pat Plante (for preparing and copying the booklet of Fr. Alex Pinto's poems), Catherine Doty, Karen Lee Ramos, Nancy Lubarsky,
Bob Rosenbloom, and Bob Fiorellino for the refreshments. Special thanks also go to our amazing Mayor Colleen Mahr for her ongoing and enthusiastic support, as well as to Councilwomen Pat Walsh and Kathy Mitchell who attended. Thanks, too, to our photographers: Tom Kranz, David Brighouse, and Bob Fiorellino.
