NEW YORK, NY—Leading British and Irish literary figures Paul Muldoon, Simon Armitage, Glyn Maxwell, Mimi Khalvati, Pascale Petit, Michael Hulse, and Bernardine Evaristo will participate in a major literary discussion, Brit Lit: New Writing from the UK and Ireland. In recent years, the UK has produced a remarkable array of writers and poets who have energized the literary scene. In the wake of the tragic events on September 11, 2001 in New York City, many of these writers have published critical writing in support and against U.S. and British actions around the world and the globalization of cultures. In a rare opportunity, several of UK’s and Ireland’s leading editors, writers, and poets will be in New York City to discuss the state of world literature and perceptions of the United States around the world.

Paul Muldoon is the winner of the T.S. Eliot award and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University and a leading figure in Irish poetry. Simon Armitage is one of the U.K’s most popular authors and is co-editor of the influential The Penguin Anthology of Poetry from Britain and Ireland. Glyn Maxwell is the winner of the E. M. Forster Prize and Poetry Editor of the New Republic. Mimi Khalvati is founder and Coordinator of The Poetry School in London. Pascale Petit is Poetry Editor of Poetry London. Michael Hulse, former editor of Stand, is Editor of Leviathan. Bernardine Evaristo is the author of Lara, which won the EMMA Best Novel Award.

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This program is made possible in part by the generous support of the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, the National Endowment for the Arts, JP Morgan Chase and the Viburnum Foundation. ####