Muldoon to become New Yorker poetry editor

Poet Paul Muldoon has been appointed the new poetry editor of the New Yorker, taking over from Alice Quinn, who’s held the post for 20 years.  The Guardian writes:

He has no immediate plans to bring a sharp change of direction to one of the jobs that makes the poetical weather in the US, and hopes to remain open to the unexpected. But poets from across the pond should make sure that the New Yorker’s email for poetry submissions is in their address book.

“I wouldn’t be surprised to see a few more British and Irish poets in the pages,” suggested Muldoon, “as well as more poetry in translation.”

“I sincerely hope that every poem I publish there will have it in it to make a profound change in the reader,” he said. “That’s certainly my aim.”