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Mark Doty

Mark Doty

Mark Doty's books of poetry and nonfiction prose have been honored with numerous distinctions, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and, in the United Kingdom, the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2008, he won the National Book Award for Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems. He is a professor at the University of Houston, and he lives in New York City.

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The Best American Poetry 2012 will be released on September 18, 2012 in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook
Sep 18, 2012
The Best American Poetry 2012 is now available in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook
Sep 18, 2012
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Foreword from The Best American Poetry 2012
Sep 16, 2012

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New Statesman, May 2, 2013
...There is a poem by Mark Doty in which the speaker looks up from the car park of a mall somewhere in Massachusetts and, seeing a flock of geese pass overhead, imagines that he is . . . up...
NPR, April 27, 2013
...the past quarter-century. But surely all engaged readers will encounter something they find worthy of high praise. In Mark Doty's "Difference," from 1994, he sees metaphors in jellyfish (and jellyfish in metaphors): unfettered by any determined form, ...
Pulse 24, April 9, 2013
..."Our Andromeda" by Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Brenda Shaughnessy (Copper Canyon Press). The judges -- Suzanne Buffam (Canada), Mark Doty (USA) and Wang Ping (China) read 509 books of poetry from 40 countries -- including 15 translations. The seven...
Purdue Exponent, April 9, 2013
...4/8/13 Lit Award Guest speaker Mark Doty reads his work following the Literary Awards Banquet on Monday night in Fowler Hall. By TOM NOVAK Staff Reporter Purdue Exponent Sometimes the most understated of metaphors holds the...
USA Today, April 2, 2013
...of Chancellors — and some of them will receive replies. (The Board includes notables such as Anne Waldman, Mark Doty, Jane Hirshfield and Naomi Shihab Nye.) The site has also created an impressive online exhibition of poets' letters. April 18 will...
Bay Area Reporter, February 28, 2013
...book. Many of these writers attribute influences from a vast gallery of iconic authors, of course. Esteemed poet Mark Doty credits Walt Whitman for his personal awakening by way of the author's "remarkable affirmations of the flesh and of sexuality and...
Wesleyan Argus, February 18, 2013
...you right away, like braids, for example. In a book called “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon” by Mark Doty, the gap between the two threads of the essay is fairly easy to see. There are passages about Dutch still life paintings that seem very formal...
WCSH-TV, May 9, 2013
...in the country right now and we're projecting 27 million seniors by 2050," Pointed out Reverend Mark Doty, one of those gathered at the Food and Medicine Rally. The pro workers group staged this demonstrstation, complete with a juggler to show how...
WLBZ 2, May 9, 2013
...in the country right now and we're projecting 27 million seniors by 2050," Pointed out Reverend Mark Doty, one of those gathered at the Food and Medicine Rally. The pro workers group staged this demonstrstation, complete with a juggler to show how...
Dallas Morning News, May 3, 2013
...Mansion, the funeral home is probably one of the oldest buildings left on Ross,” says Lost Dallas author Mark Doty, referring to the 1906-built former home of L.H. Alexander. “What’s interesting about it is it reflects that first wave of Ross...
New Statesman, May 2, 2013
...There is a poem by Mark Doty in which the speaker looks up from the car park of a mall somewhere in Massachusetts and, seeing a flock of geese pass overhead, imagines that he is . . . up...
Louisville Channel, May 1, 2013
...task on the wharf side, but on the river side we prevailed," said Belle of Louisville Captain Mark Doty...
Louisville Courier-Journal, April 30, 2013
...'Luck? We don't need it,' said Mark Doty, captain of the Belle of Louisville, about today's Great Steamboat Race. 'But Alan (Bernstein, captain of the Belle of Cincinnati) might.' Doty has good reason to be confident...
WNYC, April 27, 2013
...the past quarter-century. But surely all engaged readers will encounter something they find worthy of high praise. In Mark Doty's "Difference," from 1994, he sees metaphors in jellyfish (and jellyfish in metaphors): We look at alien grace, ...