Everyone's favorite slightly-mussed Irish poet, Paul Muldoon (c'mon, he so beats out Seamus Heaney), has been given a prestigious new job: poetry editor of the New Yorker. Even though it's one of the more demanding editing jobs in the poetry sphere, Muldoon is staying true to his creative writing professor roots and promising he will work "certainly no more than one day a week".

The New York Times has an in-depth profile of this head of the center for creative and performing arts, including a description of his impressive guitar collection. He is, after all, head of Racket, Princeton's very own all-professor band. Though as he admits to the Times, the band may run more on star power than talent: ''If I could get to be a three-chord wonder, I'd be perfectly happy.''