Mark Doty
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Mark Doty (born August 10, 1953 in Maryville, Tennessee) is an American poet. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, then 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. In 1995, he won the ₤10,000 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, the first American poet to have done so. He lives in New York City and Houston, Texas. He is currently the John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the graduate program at The University of Houston Creative Writing Program. He has also participated in The Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers and will be on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in August of 2006.
[edit] Bibliography
- Turtle, Swan (1987) - out of print
- Bethlehem in Broad Daylight (1991) - out of print
- My Alexandria: Poems (1993)
- Atlantis: Poems (1995)
- Heaven's Coast: A Memoir (1996)
- White kimono (1997)
- An Island Sheaf (1998)
- Sweet Machine: Poems (1998)
- Ploughshares Spring 1999: Stories and Poems (1999) - editor
- Firebird: A Memoir (2000)
- Turtle, Swan & Bethlehem in Broad Daylight: Two Volumes of Poetry (2000)
- Murano (2000)
- Source: Poems (2002)
- Still Life With Oysters and Lemons: On Objects and Intimacy (2002)
- Seeing Venice: Bellotto's Grand Canal (2002)
- Open House: Writers Redefine Home (2003)
- Fire to Fire: Poems (2005)
- School of the Arts: Poems (2005)
- Dog Years: A Memoir (2007)
