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

[Nancy Kuhl]

>Please join us for a poetry reading by Mark Doty TODAY 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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