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MULDOON’S PICNIC at the 92nd Street Y and HOW TO READ A POEM at the South Street Seaport Museum
Muldoon’s Picnic: unforgettable evenings of poetry, music, and stories, take place several times a year at New York’s 92nd Street Y. Writers, musicians and comedians join Muldoon’s house band, Rogue Oliphant (featuring Cait O’Riordan, Warren Zanes, David Mansfield and Ray Kubian) to present transportive programs hearkening back to the the 19th century music hall entertainments of the same name. Confirmed dates for 2026: January 22, February 25, April 29th, May 19th. Information and tickets here.
How to Read a Poem with Paul Muldoon, presented by BOOKTHEWRITER: conversations about recently published poems, take place monthly at the South Street Seaport Museum. Confirmed dates for 2026: February 4, March 4 (with more to come). Information and tickets here.
READINGS & LECTURES, 2026
1/7 How to Read a Poem, South Street Seaport Museum
1/22 Muldoon’s Picnic 92NY
2/4 How to Read a Poem, South Street Seaport Museum
2/25 Muldoon’s Picnic 92NY
3/4 How to Read a Poem, South Street Seaport Museum
3/7-8 National Concert Hall Dublin (with Martin Hayes)
3/17 Carnegie Hall New York
3/18 Symphony Hall Boston
3/19 De Bartolo Performing Arts Center Notre Dame
3/20 Hill Auditorium Ann Arbor
3/22 Severance Center Cleveland
4/29 Muldoon’s Picnic 92NY
5/13 A History of Ireland in 12 Poems Irish Cultural Centre London
5/19 Muldoon’s Picnic 92NY
READINGS & LECTURES 2025
1/14 Poetry and Politics The Storey, Lancaster
1/22 How to Read a Poem Museum of Literature, Ireland
1/22 A Celebration of Stephen Rea The Lark, Balbriggan
1/29 How to Read a Poem Museum of Literature, Ireland
2/1 Kinsale Beatles Festival
2/5 How to Read a Poem Museum of Literature, Ireland
2/9 Works & Process National Sawdust, Brooklyn
2/19 How to Read a Poem Museum of Literature, Ireland
2/20 "A History of Ireland in 10 Poems” Ireland Professor of Poetry Reading Trinity College Dublin
2/26 How to Read a Poem Museum of Literature, Ireland
3/5 How to Read a Poem Museum of Literature, Ireland
3/11 Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
3/20 Literary Leicester
3/26 "Ferriter’s Cove” Ireland Professor of Poetry Lecture University College Dublin
4/2 How to Read a Poem Museum of Literature Ireland
4/3 “Ferriter’s Cove” Ireland Professor of Poetry Lecture Queen’s University, Belfast
4/5 Irish Writers’ Centre Dublin
4/8 Galway Festival, Cuirt, Galway
4/9 How to Read a Poem Museum of Literature, Ireland
4/12 University of Limerick Creative Writing Festival
4/16 How to Read a Poem Museum of Literature Ireland
4/8 Reading The Storey, Lancaster
4/14 Free Library of Philadelphia
5/3 Oxford Writers’ House
6/8 Crescent Arts Centre Belfast
6/13-15 Dalkey Book Festival
8/8 Custom of the Coast St Canice’s Kilkenny
8/9 “A History of Ireland in 12 Poems” Parade Tower Kilkenny
8/17 A Turn at Tara, Ireland
8/30 Rogue Oliphant Star Theatre Cherry Valley New York
9/3 Rogue Oliphant Joe’s Pub New York
9/10-11 Rogue Oliphant AmericanaFest Nashville
9/14 Van Morrison Birthday Celebration Waterfront Hall Belfast
9/14 Launch of Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets Coronet Theatre London
9/20 Bookmark Shoppe Brooklyn
9/28 University of Sao Paolo
10/16-18 Sharon Springs Poetry Festival
10/22 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
11/3 Launch of Talking Heads: Ireland Professor of Poetry Lectures Dublin
11/4 A Celebration of Derek Mahon Dublin
11/7 Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum Fairfield, CT
12/5-7 Poetry Festival Irish Arts Center New York
12/15 Launch of Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets 92nd Street Y New York
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
7/3-7 Ledbury Festival
7/19-22 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference
7/24 Stories from the Heart, Star Theater, Cherry Valley, NY
8/15-16 Kilkenny Arts Week
8/17 Books Upstairs, Dublin
8/18 A Turn at Tara
8/20 Edinburgh International Book Festival
9/1 Spencertown Academy Festival of Books
9/11 McNally Jackson, Seaport, New York
9/12 Labyrinth Books, Princeton
10/5 New Hampshire Book Festival
10/9 A Life in Lyrics screening, Irish Arts Center, New York
10/10 Muldoon’s Picnic, Ten Year Anniversary Extravaganza, Irish Arts Center, New YorK
10/11 Muldoon’s Picnic, Ten Year Anniversary Extravaganza, Irish Arts Center, New York
10/12 Muldoon’s Picnic, Ten Year Anniversary Extravaganza, Irish Arts Center, New York
10/16 Sacred Heart University, Connecticut
10/17-19 Sharon Springs Poetry Festival
11/8-9 Leaves Festival, Laois
11/13 The Phantom of Liberty Prof Picks Garden Theatre Princeton
11/15 Fund for Irish Studies, Princeton
11/23 British Library
11/26 Paul Muldoon and Rogue Oliphant, Joe’s Pub
12/12 Seamus Heaney HomePlace
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