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2012
Poet and Memorist, Mark Doty
The Literary Southwest
PRESS RELEASE 3/21/12
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The Literary Southwest Welcomes Esteemed Poet and Memoirist Mark Doty on Friday, April 13
On Friday, April 13, The Literary Southwest celebrates National Poetry Month by hosting a not-to-be-missed reading and conversation with Mark Doty, one of the finest and most honored poets writing in America today. Also a lauded memoirist and essayist, Doty brings his shimmering poetic touch to everything he writes. The program begins at 7 p.m. in the Yavapai College Library’s Susan N. Webb Community Room (Bldg. 19, Room 147) on the Prescott campus. An audience Q & A session and a book signing follow the reading. All Literary Southwest programs are free and open to the public.
Mark Doty, the only American poet to have won Great Britain's T. S. Eliot Prize, is the author of seven books of poems. The first, Turtle, Swan, appeared in 1987. His 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); Source (2001); and the critically acclaimed volume of poems, School of the Arts (HarperCollins, 2005). Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems was published, and won the National Book Award, in 2008. Doty is the author of three memoirs: Heaven's Coast (1996), Firebird (1999), and Dog Years (2007), as well as The Art of Description: World Into Word, a volume in the popular "Art of" series, a line of books intended to reinvigorate the practice of craft and criticism. 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). In addition to the awards noted above, Doty is the recipient of two NEA fellowships, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, as well as a Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Award and the Witter Byner Prize. Doty teaches at Rutgers University, and is a frequent guest at Columbia University, Hunter College, and NYU.
The Hassayampa Institute Presents The Literary Southwest is made possible by the Prescott Area Arts & Humanities Council, Yavapai College, and the Yavapai College Foundation, with additional support provided by the Yavapai College Bookstore.
For complete author and series information, visit: www.yc.edu/hassayampa or contact Series Director Jim Natal through Yavapai College at 928-776-2295, or via email at: james.natal@yc.edu.
Carl
Friday, March 30, 2012