[Yale-readings] TODAY: Mark Doty Reading, Beinecke 4 pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

Please join us for a poetry reading by Mark Doty on Tuesday, April 6 at 4 
pm at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street. Yale 
graduate student Brad Walters will introduce the poet. A reception will 
follow; this event is free and open to the public. For additional 
information about the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series 
please contact Nancy Kuhl at 432-2966 or nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.

Mark Doty is the author of six books of poems, including Source (2002); 
Sweet Machine (1998); Atlantis (1995); My Alexandria (1993); Bethlehem in 
Broad Daylight (1991); and Turtle, Swan (1987). His memoir, Heaven's Coast 
(1996), won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction; Firebird, 
another work of autobiography, was published in 1999. Doty was awarded the 
Ambassador Book Award, the Bingham Poetry Prize, and a Lambda Literary 
Award for Atlantis. My Alexandria, chosen by Philip Levine for the National 
Poetry Series, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and Great 
Britain's T. S. Eliot Prize, and was a National Book Award finalist. Doty 
has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller 
Foundation, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in 
Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Houston, Texas, where he teaches at the 
University of Houston.

For information about and examples of Mark Doty's work visit:
http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?45442B7C000C04020A7B
http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?45442B7C000C07010074
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/doty/doty.htm
http://www.contemporarypoetry.com/dialect/biographies/doty.html

Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966
Fax: 203.432.4047
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