READINGS & LECTURES 2024
1/14 T.S. Eliot Prize, Royal Festival Hall, London
1/17 A Celebration of Seamus Heaney, The Storey, Lancaster
1/24 How to Read a Poem, Trinity College Dublin
1/26 Yeats Winter School, Sligo
2/1 Reading, Museum of Literature Ireland
2/6 Translation Masterclass Trinity College Dublin
2/7 How to Read a Poem, Trinity College Dublin
2/21 How to Read a Poem, Trinity College Dublin
2/27 Make Like a Bird, Ireland Professor of Poetry Lecture, Trinity College, Dublin
3/1 The Rhyming Weavers, Ulster University
3/6 How to Read a Poem, Trinity College Dublin
3/10 Cabinet of Wonders, Bob Dylan Center, Tulsa
3/11 Muldoon’s Picnic, Irish Arts Center
3/12 A Life in Lyrics, Princeton Garden Theater
3/13 Reading, Boston College
3/16 Paul Muldoon and Rogue Oliphant, Arts Council Benefit, Princeton
3/17 Cabinet of Wonders, City Winery, New York
3/20 How to Read a Poem. Trinity College Dublin
3/21 The Queen’s Reading Room, Hillsborough Castle
3/22 Imagine Belfast, Crescent Arts Center
3/26 Translation Masterclass Trinity College Dublin
4/1 Muldoon’s Picnic, Irish Arts Center
4/4 Celtic Studies Association of North America
4/17 How to Read a Poem, Trinity College Dublin
4/23 Hodges Figgis Bookshop, Dublin
4/24 Topping & Company Bookshop Bath
4/25 Foyles Bookshop London
5/1 How to Read a Poem, Trinity College Dublin
5/2 Make Like a Bird, Ireland Professor of Poetry Lecture, Queen’s University Belfast
5/3 Guernsey Literary Festival
5/8 Emily Dickinson, The Storey, Lancaster
5/13 Muldoon’s Picnic Town Hall Galway
5/15 Muldoon’s Picnic Marketplace Theatre Armagh
5/16 Muldoon’s Picnic Arts Centre Wexford
5/17 Muldoon’s Picnic Pavilion Theatre Dun Laoghaire
5/18 Munster Literature Festival, Cork
5/29 Museo delle Genti d’Abruzzo Pescara
5/30 Gabriele d’Annunzio University, Pescara
6/3 Muldoon’s Picnic, Irish Arts Center
6/19-22 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference
7/3-7 Ledbury Festival
8/16 Kilkenny Arts Festival
8/18 A Turn at Tara
8/20 Edinburgh International Book Festival
9/1 Spencertown Academy Festival of Books
9/11 Labyrinth Books, Princeton
9/12 McNally Jackson Seaport
10/17-19 Sharon Springs Poetry Festival
READINGS & LECTURES 2023
1/18 Sylvia Plath, The Storey, Lancaster
1/24 Paul Muldoon: A Life in Lyrics, Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast
1/25 How to Read a Poem, QUB
2/1 How to Read a Poem, QUB
2/8 How to Read a Poem, QUB
2/10 The Castle of Perseverance, British Library
2/13 Muldoon’s Picnic, Irish Arts Center, NYC
2/16 Yale University (with Paul McCartney)
2/20 A History of Ireland in 15 Poems, Irish Studies, QUB
2/22 How to Read a Poem, QUB
2/24 Linen Hall Library, Belfast
3/1 How to Read a Poem, QUB
3/2 Reading, Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre, TCD
3/5 St. Pat’s for All, New York
3/10 Wes Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders
3/13 Muldoon’s Picnic, Irish Arts Center, NY
3/16 The Complete Poems of Basho, Hunter College
3/17 The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
3/22 McNally Jackson, South Street Seaport (with Shane McCrae)
3/30 NYU (with Yusef Komunyakaa)
4/2 The Abbey Theatre
4/3 Muldoon’s Picnic, Irish Arts Center, NY
4/22 Cork World Book Festival
4/24 Inner Light, Vicar Street, Dublin
4/25 Talking Heads Ireland Professor of Poetry lecture QUB
4/28 University of Vienna
5/3 The Lament for Art O’Leary Conference, Cambridge University
5/5 Flowerfield Arts Center, Portstewart
5/10 Louis MacNeice Anniversary, The Storey, Lancaster
5/17 Ireland Professor of Poetry Lecture, UCD
5/19 The Lesson of Louis MacNeice, Linen Hall Library, Belfast
6/2-3 Listowel Arts Week
6/12 Irish Repertory Theatre Gala, Town Hall, New York
8/20 A Turn at Tara
8/25 Seamus Heaney HomePlace
9/9 Muldoon’s Picnic, Sharon Springs, NY
9/11 Muldoon’s Picnic, Irish Arts Center
9/15 Ciaran Carson Conference, Q.U.B.
9/26 Carriage House, Fanwood N.J.
10/5-6 Litvest Timisoara
10/12-14 Sharon Springs Poetry Festival
10/25-27 Yeats and the Nobel Price, Stockholm
10/30 Muldoon’s Picnic, Irish Arts Center
11/2 London Review of Books Bookshop
11/4 Rostrevor Literary Festival
11/10-11 Charleston Literary Festival, Charleston, SC
11/13 Muldoon’s Picnic, NYC
11/17 Princeton Poetry Festival
12/1 Yeats Society, Sligo
12/12 Fergie’s Pub, Philadelphia
READINGS & LECTURES 2022
1/18 The Storey Institute Lancaster
1/27 Irish Times Winter Nights
2/7 Muldoon’s Picnic New York
2/14 Rosenbach Museum Philadelphia
3/1 Labyrinth Books Princeton
3/10 Joe’s Pub Paul Muldoon & Rogue Oliphant
3/14 Muldoon’s Picnic New York
3/24 Wor-Wic Community College, Maryland
3/30 Open Book University of South Carolina
4/11 Muldoon’s Picnic New York
5/13 Monstrous Weight: The Influence of Plath and Hughes Huddersfield
5/26 Mystic & Noank Library
5/31 McNally Jackson (with Sarah Ruhl)
6/2 Queen Elizabeth Hall (with PJ Harvey)
6/3-5 How the Light Gets In, Hay-on-Wye
6/10-12 Borris Festival of Ideas
6/19 Dalkey Book Festival
6/16 Spinoza’s Shillelagh: Some Thorny Issues in Ulysses Dublin
6/17 Belfast Book Festival
7/10 Kinsale
7/11-15 West Cork Literary Festival
8/6 Dingle
8/10 Muldoon’s Picnic The Lime Tree Limerick
8/12 Muldoon’s Picnic An Grianan Letterkenny
8/13 Muldoon’s Picnic Lyric Theatre Belfast
8/14 Muldoon’s Picnic Peacock Theatre Dublin
8/26 Donegal County Library Letterkenny
8/28 A Turn at Tara
9/2-3 Hay Queratero
9/10 Muldoon’s Picnic Sharon Springs
9/12 Muldoon’s Picnic New York
9/16-17 Berlin International Literature Festival
10/8 Morristown Festival of Books
10/10 Muldoon’s Picnic New York
10/14-5 Sharon Springs Poetry Festival
11/4 Marketplace Theatre Armagh
11/12 Frenchtown Bookshop
11/14 Muldoon’s Picnic New York
12/4 Irish Arts Center Poetry Festival
12/5 92nd Street Y
2021
1/31 Poetry Please (BBC Radio 4)
2/8 Write America
2/12 New Mexico Irish American Society
3/12 Seamus Heaney Homeplace
4/22 Museum of the Russian Icon
6/16 Bloomsday Princeton Arts Council
7/14 Chalybeate Park, Sharon Springs (with Rogue Oliphant)
7/26 Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN (with Jean Hanff Korelitz)
8/3 Medellin International Poetry Festival
8/22 Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas (with Nick Laird)
10/8-9 Winchester Poetry Festival
10/15-16 Sharon Springs Poetry Festival
10/17 Red Line Book Festival Dublin
10/20 Coronet Theater London
10/25 Topping & Company, Bath
10/29 Belfast International Arts Festival
11/5 Southbank Center
11/15 Write America (with Shane McCrae)
11/18 Book Culture 112th Street Manhattan
11/21 Dingle Literary Festival (Virtual)
11/21 Munich
12/12 Pop-Up Book Group (www.bookthewriter.com), 4:00 in person (NYC) and online. More information
READINGS & LECTURES 2020
1/14 “American Standard”, The Storey, Lancaster
2/10 Muldoon’s Picnic, New York
2/28 Seattle University
3/6 Percy French Society Newcastle County Down
3/9 Muldoon’s Picnic, New York
3/10 Post Show Discussion of Incantata, Irish Repertory Theatre
5/9 Big Book Weekend BBC (Virtual)
5/23 How the Light Gets In Festival (Virtual)
6/16 Bloomsday The Rosenbach Museum (Virtual)
8/1 Medellin Poetry Festival (Virtual)
9/21 Athens International Poetry Festival (Virtual)
9/22 Word on the Street Toronto (Virtual)
9/30 A reading from Why Brownlee Left National Library of Ireland (Virtual)
10/7 New York City Poetry Festival (Virtual)
10/8 Ciaran Carson Tribute Poetry Ireland (Virtual)
10/12 Picnic Picks Irish Arts Center (Virtual)
10/15-17 Sharon Springs Poetry Festival (Virtual)
10/17 No Word for “Stay” Belfast International Festival (Virtual)
10/22 University of Kentucky (Virtual)
10/24 Lit Balm Poetry Zoomathon Fundraiser for Biden and Harris (Virtual)
11/2 Seattle Town Hall (Virtual)
11/9 Picnic Picks Irish Arts Center (Virtual)
11/18 Montclair State University (Virtual)
11/23 Arena RTE
12/1 Plaguey Hill, A Reading by Liev Schreiber, Irish Repertory Theatre (Virtual)
12/9 Launch of The Bannisters Vallum
12/14 Picnic Picks, Irish Arts Center (Virtual)
12/21 John Hewitt Society Reading (Virtual)
12/29 The Story Talks Back Podcast
READINGS & LECTURES 2019
1/11 Muldoon’s Picnic, Irish Arts Center, New York
1/17 University of the South
1/24 Against the Grain, National Sawdust, Brooklyn (with Laurie Anderson, Jorie Graham, and Colm Toibin)
1/28 "What Comes Around Goes Around: Muldoon on Yeats" Storey Theatre, Lancaster
1/31 Paul Muldoon Reads Yeats, University of Durham
2/17 Joe’s Pub Paul Muldoon and Rogue Oliphant Launch of 2 disc LP “Sadie and the Sadists"
2/22-23 The Lament for Art O’Leary Irish Arts Center, New York (with Lisa Dwan, Ruth Smith, and members of Horslips)
3/9 Live from Here with Chris Thile, Carnegie Hall
3/28 Wake Forest University
4/7 Hoboken Literary Weekend Paul Muldoon and Rogue Oliphant
4/23 Kean University, Union, New Jersey
5/1 “American Standard,” Columbia University Forum
5/22 Bertolt Brecht, New York Public Library
5/23 Against the Grain, National Sawdust, Brooklyn (with Min Jin Lee, Tracy K. Smith, and So Percussion)
5/26 International Literary Festival, Dublin
6/2 Black Gate, Galway
6/6 The Well Review launch, Poetry Ireland, Dublin
6/9 Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas
6/11 "This was Mr Heaney’s Room: The Influence of Anxiety” Bank of Ireland, Dublin
6/13 Belfast Book Festival
6/15 York Festival of Ideas
6/20-23 Letters Io Iceland, Reykjavik
6/26 Urbino
6/27 Vola Alta Parola, Regio Emilia
7/15 Glimmerglass Opera Poetry Reading
7/20 Troy Poetry Club, Troy, NY
7/27 Fiddlers Green, Rostrevor
8/1 “Zigzag Wantonness: Yeats and Form” Yeats Summer School, Sligo
8/25 A Turn at Tara
8/27 West Point Military Academy
9/13-15 Conference in Creative Writing, Florina, Greece
9/23 Launch of Long Walk Home, Strand Bookstore, NYC
10/1 Faber at 90, London
10/3 Manchester University
10/4 Cheltenham Festival
10/18-19 Sharon Springs Poetry Festival
10/24 Launch of The Eloquent Poem, McNally Jackson
10/25-26 Princeton Poetry Festival
10/30 Against the Grain, London
11/1-3 Irish Arts Center Poetry Festival
11/18 A Conversation with Francesca Zambello, Klinkhart Arts, Sharon Springs
11/19 Shakespeare & Co, 939 Lexington Avenue (68th Street)
11/21 Against the Grain, National Sawdust, Brooklyn
12/4 Moonstone Poetry, Fergie’s Pub, Philadelphia
12/14 Paul Muldoon and Rogue Oliphant, Hopewell Theatre
Readings & Lectures 2018
1/14 - Tepoztlan, Mexico
1/25 - Storey Institute, Lancaster
1/26 - St. John's College, Cambridge
1/27 - New College, Oxford
1/28 - Phoenix Art Center, Exeter
2/12 - Muldoon’s Picnic, IAC, New York
2/23 - Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University
2/25 - Whitney Museum, New York
3/2 - Harvard Club, Boston
3/3 - La Grua Center, Stonington
3/12 - Muldoon’s Picnic, IAC, New York
3/22 - Chop Suey, Richmond
3/29 - Houghton Library, Cambridge
4/7 - Wesley Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders
4/9 - Muldoon’s Picnic, IAC, New York
4/13 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, Georgia (with David Mansfield)
4/19 - American Irish Historical Society, New York
4/23 - Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia
4/24 - Highland Park Public Library
4/25 - Irish Arts Center Gala Concert, Symphony Space
4/30 - The Strand Bookstore Micro-residency 1-3 PM
4/30 - Under the Volcano, Cornelia Street Cafe
5/11 - St Andrews University
5/15 - Print Room at the Coronet, London
5/18 - The Storey Institute, Lancaster
6/11 - Royal Irish Academy
6/17 - Dalkey Book Festival
7/26-7/28 - Odessa, Ukraine
8/8 - Sharon Springs Summer Concert (with Rogue Oliphant)
8/26 - A Turn at Tara
9/8 - Hopewell Theater (with Rogue Oliphant)
9/10 - Muldoon’s Picnic, IAC, New York
10/2 DIA Foundation
10/5 Williamstown, MA
10/6 - Hancock Shaker Village (with Rogue Oliphant)
10/8 - Muldoon’s Picnic, IAC, New York
10/11 - University of California, Berkeley
10/12 - Montalvo Arts Center, Los Gatos
10/19 - Sharon Springs, NY Poetry Festival
10/25 - Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
10/26 - London School of Economics
10/28 - Seamus Heaney Home Place, Bellaghy, Ireland
10/30 - Trinity College Dublin
10/31 - Belfast Festival (with Michael Longley)
11/1-11/4 - John O’Connor School, Armagh
11/12 - Muldoon’s Picnic, IAC, New York
11/17 - Creative Alliance Baltimore (with Rogue Oliphantl