Recorded on Thursday, April 17, 2008
6:30 p.m.
(57.1 mb, Time 1:11:17)
What
you will hear:
A unique series for
sophisticated writers, readers, and eaters, Eat,
Drink & Be Literary continues the momentum
of the past two sell-out series, bringing major contemporary
authors to BAMcafé for intimate dinners, readings,
and discussions that are always entertaining and engaging.
There is a brief introduction
by Harold Augenbraum, executive director of the National
Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards.
Edward Hirsch introduces Paul Muldoon, who then reads
from his poetry collection Horse Latitudes,
followed by a Q&A session with Hirsch and the
audience. Muldoon discusses what allows for the creation
of great poetry, what it means to be a poet from Northern
Ireland, and when he finds the time to write.
Poems read during the event
include: Sushi, Egg, Turkey
Buzzards, and The Loaf
The featured author and moderator is:
A
native of Northern Ireland, Paul Muldoon was recently
appointed poetry editor of the New Yorker.
He has published innumerable poems, his first
at age 16. Since then, he has published several
collections, including New Weather (1973),
Madoc: A Mystery (1990), and Moy
Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he won
the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. Muldoon has received
international honors that include the 1994 T.
S. Eliot Prize, the 2003 Griffin International
Prize for Excellence in Poetry, and the 2004 Shakespeare
Prize. He is currently chairman of the Princeton
University Center for the Creative and Performing
Arts. To read some of his work, visit http://www.paulmuldoon.net.
Edward Hirsch, moderator
Edward
Hirsch is a poet and critic. He has published six
books of poems including For Wild Gratitude
(1986), which won the National Book Critics Circle
Award. His seventh collection, Special Orders,
will be published in March 2008. He has also written
four prose books, including How to Read a Poem
and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999),
a national bestseller. He has received a Guggenheim
Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Award for Literature, and a MacArthur Fellowship.
Hirsch now serves as president of the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Eat, Drink & Be Literary
is sponsored by Bloomberg.
