New Yorker poetry editor Paul Muldoon and RACKETT at the Bowery Poetry Club

Please join us for an evening of poetry and rock and roll with Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer Prize winning poetry editor of the New Yorker, and the Princeton-based band RACKETT on Saturday, March 21 8-9:30 p.m., at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (Between Houston and Bleecker). For more info please call 212-614-0505 or bowerypoetry.com. $15

Along with Muldoon, RACKETT features: Stephen Allen (keyboards), Bobby Lewis (drums), Lee Matthew (lead guitar, vocals), Paul Muldoon (guitar, lyrics), and Nigel Smith (bass).

A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Paul Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature for 1996. Other recent awards are the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry, and the 2006 European Prize for Poetry. He has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as “the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War.”

Paul Muldoon’s main collections of poetry are New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001) and Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. His tenth collection, Horse Latitudes, appeared in the fall of 2006.

Hosting between 20 and 30 shows a week the Bowery Poetry Club (BPC) is proud of our place in the lineage of populist art: the Yiddish theater, burlesque, vaudeville, beat poetry, jazz, and punk that gave the Bowery its name.

New Yorker poetry editor Paul Muldoon and RACKETT at the Bowery Poetry Club

We would like to draw your attention to a very
special event. Please join us for an evening of poetry and rock and
roll with Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer Prize winning poetry editor of
the New Yorker, and the Princeton-based band Rackett, on Saturday,
December 20th, 8-9:30 p.m., at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery,
(Between Houston and Bleecker), New York. Ticket cost is $15.

A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Paul
Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in
literature for 1996. Other recent awards are the 1994 T. S. Eliot
Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Griffin
International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, the 2004 American
Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2005
Aspen Prize for Poetry, and the 2006 European Prize for Poetry. He has
been described by The Times Literary Supplement as “the most
significant English-language poet born since the second World War.”

Along with Muldoon, RACKETT features: Stephen Allen (keyboards), Bobby
Lewis (drums), Lee Matthew (lead guitar, vocals), Paul Muldoon
(guitar, lyrics), and Nigel Smith (bass).

Please feel free to contact us for more details.

Katelyn Maloney
Media Director
Bowery Poetry Club