Mark Doty

Mark Doty

 

Thursday, April 3, 2008
7:00 p.m.
Eccles Conference Center 216
Reading

 

Friday, April 4, 2008
2:00 p.m.
Alumni Center
Poetry Roundtable Discussion

 

Mark Doty, the only American poet to have won Great Britain’s T.S. Eliot Prize, is the author of six books of poems. The first, Turtle Swan, appeared in 1987. His third collection, My Alexandria (1993), received both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Since then he has published Atlantis (1995), Sweet Machine (1998) and Source (2001), as well as the memoirs Heaven’s Coast (1996) and Firebird (1999). His interest in the visual arts is evident not only in his poems but also in his book-length essay “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon” (2001). His newest critically acclaimed volume of poems, School of the Arts, was published in 2005 by HarperCollins. Among his many other awards are two NEA fellowships, Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, a Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Award, and the Witter Byner Prize. As the award citation for the last of these noted, “Mark Doty’s poems extend the range of the American lyric.” Doty teaches in the graduate program the University of Houston, and is a frequent guest at Columbia University, Hunter College, and NYU. He lives in Houston and in New York City.