A new series of the words and music extravaganza hosted by Paul Muldoon continues on September 11 2023 at the Irish Arts Center in New York.
Named after a popular New York vaudeville act and an Irish-American knockabout farce from the 1880s, Muldoon’s Picnic is an entertainment devised and developed by Paul Muldoon.
Billed as a mixum-gatherum of poetry, prose and music, Muldoon’s Picnic has featured appearances by Jamie Alegre, Laurie Anderson, Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem, Simon Armitage, Stuart Bailie, Nicholson Baker, John Banville, Catherine Barnett, Dan Barry, Kevin Barry, Mike Birbiglia, Sophie Cabot Black, Eavan Boland, Paul Brady, Moya Brennan, Lucie Brock-Broido, Michael Brunnock, Dan Burke, Stephanie Burt, Jean Butler, Lucy Caldwell, Laura Cantrell, Nollaig Casey, Peter Carey, Anna Cristina Cash, John Carter Cash, Rosanne Cash, Michael Cerveris, Amit Chaudhuri, Marilyn Chin, Susan Choi, David Clement, Jennifer Clement, Chris Collingwood, Zoe Conway, Steve Cooney, Christina Courtin, Mary Cregan, Damsel, Cormac de Barra, Michael Dickman, Dinner, Timothy Donnelly, Mark Doty, Roddy Doyle, Dave Dreiwitz, Duke Special, Lisa Dwan, Cornelius Eady, Steve Earle, Alex Edelman, Anne Enright, Elaine Equi, Wendy Erskine, Peter Fallon, Fay La Foe, Neil Finn, Andy Fitzpatrick, Andrew Fitzsimons, Bill Flanagan, Nick Flynn, Jonathan Safran Foer, Sinead Gleeson, Ivan Goff, Ben Goldberg, Vivian Gornick, Len Graham, Vona Groarke, Sammy Grob, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Kimiko Hahn, James Hannaham, Lisa Hannigan, Glen Hansard, Joy Harjo, Martin Hayes, Virginia Heffernan, Aleksandar Hemon, AM Homes, members of Horslips, Marie Howe, Caoilinn Hughes, Ishion Hutchinson, Niamh Hyland, Bill Irwin, Major Jackson, Simon Jermyn, Erica Jong, Gabriel Kahane, Mary Karr, Bridget Kearney, Claire Keegan, Louise Kennedy, The Kennedys, Larry Kirwan, The Knights, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lisa Lambe, Nick Laird, Min Jin Lee, Janna Levin, Yiyun Li, Michael Longley, The Lost Brothers, Patrick McCabe, Colum McCann, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Shane McCrae, Alice McDermott, Lucy McDiarmid, Artie McGlynn, Lisa McInerney, John McIntyre, Maureen N. McLane, Danielle McLaughlin, Bernard MacLaverty, Josepha Madigan, James Maddock, Manchan Magan, Dora Malech, Warren Malone, David Mansfield, Miracles of Modern Science, Ange Mlinko, Mick Moloney, Rick Moody, Sinead Morrissey, Van Morrison, Andrew Motion, Mark Mulcahy, Jenni Muldaur, Asher Muldoon, Feargal Murray, Paul Murray, Eileen Myles, Naughty Clouds, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Willie Nile, Lizzie No, Joyce Carol Oates, Joseph O’Connor, Aoife O’Donovan, Brian OhAirt, Sharon Olds, Iarla O’Lionaird, Felicia Olusanya, Lisa O’Neill, Caoimhin O’Raghallaigh, Cait O’Riordan, David O’Rourke, Declan O’Rourke, Meghan O’Rourke, Camille O’Sullivan, Leanne O’Sullivan, Fintan O’Toole, Don Paterson, Glenn Patterson, Bill Payne, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Zara Phillips, Robert Pinsky, David Power, Jana Prikryl, Maddy Prior, The Prodigals, Puddles the Clown, Anna Quindlen, Peter Quinn, Emerald Rae, James Richardson, Amy Rigby, Maurice Riordan, Michael Robbins, Phil Robson, Roger Rosenblatt, Sarah Ruhl, Salman Rushdie, Joe Russo, Amy Ryan, Erika L. Sanchez, Brenda Shaughnessy, Harold Schechter, Liev Schreiber, Cleek Schrey, Stephen Sexton, James Shapiro, John Sheahan, Beowulf Sheehan, Gary Shteyngart, Sally Singer, Jane Smiley, Patricia Smith, Tracy K. Smith, Zadie Smith, So Percussion, Wesley Stace, J. Hope Stein, Syd Straw, Hannah Sullivan, Louise Sullivan, Robert Sullivan, Sam Sullivan, Richard Thompson, Teddy Thompson, Christine Tobin, Colm Toibin, Stanley Townsend, Pierce Turner, Dan Trueman, Lynne Tillman, Cillian Vallely, John Vanderslice, Loudon Wainwright III, Anne Waldman, Tim Wheeler, Sean Wilentz, Edmund White, Colson Whitehead, Cassandra Wilson, Hilma Wolitzer, Meg Wolitzer, Doug Wright, Monica Youn, Kevin Young, Warren Zanes, and Ariel Zevon.
While it has been presented in other settings (including Armagh, Belfast, Carrick-on-Shannon, Cork, Dublin, Edinburgh, Ennis, Galway, Letterkenny, Limerick, Navan, Paxos, Sharon Springs, Sligo and Washington), the main venue for Muldoon’s Picnic continues to be the Irish Arts Center in New York City. The house band for Muldoon’s Picnic is Rogue Oliphant.
Read about Muldoon’s Picnic’s 2019 Irish Tour here.
