Mark Doty Reading at The Loft Literary Center
Poet Mark Doty Reads 'A Display of Mackerel'
Mark Doty on memory, mackerel and verse
Colgate Writers' Conference: Mark Doty Evening Reading
Page Meets Stage: MARK DOTY
Mark Doty reading at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival
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Mark Doty reading a poem at the 2008 Dodge Poetry Festival
Mark Doty's 2008 National Book Award Acceptance Speech
Mark Doty Reads His Poem, "Charlie Howard's Descent"
Poetry Everywhere: "Brian, Age 7" by Mark Doty
Readings by Mark Doty
Mark Doty, poet and nonfiction writer
"Tiara" by Mark Doty, recited by Mark Dennis Anderson
Mark Doty Reading at The Loft Literary Center
Poet Mark Doty Reads 'A Display of Mackerel'
Mark Doty on memory, mackerel and verse
Colgate Writers' Conference: Mark Doty Evening Reading
Page Meets Stage: MARK DOTY
Mark Doty reading at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival
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Mark Doty reading a poem at the 2008 Dodge Poetry Festival
Mark Doty's 2008 National Book Award Acceptance Speech
Mark Doty Reads His Poem, "Charlie Howard's Descent"
Poetry Everywhere: "Brian, Age 7" by Mark Doty
Readings by Mark Doty
Mark Doty, poet and nonfiction writer
"Tiara" by Mark Doty, recited by Mark Dennis Anderson
Robert Vaughan reads Mark Doty's "A Green Crab's Shell"
Mark Doty with Eloise Klein Healy, 11 February 1997
Poet Mark Doty Reflects on Community Bonds Forged by Handel's 'Messiah'
Mark Doty: Poet As Hermit or Social Being
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Mark Doty Reads His Poem, "To Joan Mitchell"
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Mark Doty Poet, Memoirist
Page Meets Stage: MARK DOTY
St. John and The Daily Beast celebrate the National Book Awards - Mark Doty Interview
Mark Doty Reading in the 2008 Dodge Poetry Festival Saturday Night Sampler - 9/27/08
Mark Doty reads Gwendolyn Brooks
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Mark Doty - UHV/ABR Reading Series - Part 2
Mark Doty - UHV/ABR Reading Series - Part 5
Mark Doty and Achy Obejas: Queer Lyrics
Mark Doty - UHV/ABR Reading Series - Part 1
Mark Doty reads at Dodge Poetry Festival 2008
Golden Retrievals Mark Doty English Project
MISSY DOTY - Oscar Nominee - NEBRASKA - Interview at Roger Neal Pre-Oscar Suites 2014
Mark Doty (born August 10, 1953) is an American poet and memoirist.
He was born in Maryville, Tennessee, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont.
In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested positive for HIV, which drastically changed Doty's writing. Roberts's death in 1994 inspired Doty to write Atlantis. Heaven's Coast: A Memoir also deals with this subject. In 1995, he was the first American poet to win the £10,000 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, for his book My Alexandria. The book was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Doty also received a 1994 Whiting Writers' Award.
He has written twelve books of poetry and three memoirs. Firebird told the story of his childhood in the American South and in Arizona. Dog Years was a memoir of the lives of two of his dogs who Doty had while dealing with the death of his partner and the devastation of 9-11. Louise Erdrich praised the book as being "about dogs, that is to say, about everything we cannot talk about... the 'unsayable' about our relationships with animals, and about unspeakable times of loss, Dog Years is not a dark book. It is illuminated from within by gorgeous wonder." Dog Years is the winner of the 2008 American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award. His last book of poetry Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems won the 2008 National Book Award for Poetry.