Steve Earle, Christina Baker Kline, and Jana Prikryl: Muldoon’s Picnic

Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he has taught at Princeton University for more than thirty years. He is the author of more than a dozen previous collections of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize; Selected Poems 1968–2014; and, Howdie-Skelp.

Steve Earle is a GRAMMY-winning singer-songwriter, author, actor, producer, and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee whose songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, and others. His landmark albums include Guitar Town, Copperhead Road, The Revolution Starts...Now, Washington Square Serenade, and TOWNES. He has also published a novel and short-story collection, appeared in The Wire and Tremé, and was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 2025.

Jana Prikryl’s fourth book of poems, The Channel, is published this fall. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her work has been supported by residencies at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and the Fondation Jan Michalski in Switzerland. Born in the former Czechoslovakia, Prikryl lives in Brooklyn with her son and is the executive editor at The New York Review of Books.

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