Welcome Paul Muldoon to The New Yorker --

Pulitzer Winner to Take Over as New Yorker’s Poetry Editor

By MOTOKO RICH
Published: September 20, 2007


Alice Quinn, the poetry editor of The New Yorker, is stepping down after 20 years and will be succeeded in one of the most influential posts in the poetry world by Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

Mr. Muldoon, 56, will remain chairman of the Princeton University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. An Irish-born poet who has published 10 volumes of verse, he will also continue to write and teach at Princeton.

Ms. Quinn, 58, will leave the magazine in early November.

Read the full story here.

It's Official...

I'm able to share my good news.

I won the Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest for my poem "When Killer Blue Irises Spread." The contest is for graduate students enrolled in colleges throughout the US.

This was the last year I could submit, so I'm thrilled to have been chosen. (Note to curious readers--of the three chances I had to submit--I missed the first deadline, was rejected the second, and as it turns out 3's a charm.)

Here's a list of all the winners in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction as well.

My poem will be in the summer fiction issue.

How do I feel?