Mark Doty

Mark Doty is a poet and memoirist who teaches at Rutgers University and has long lived in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Since his first collection, Turtle, Swan (1987), he has published many books of poetry, including Bethlehem in Broad Daylight (1991), My Alexandria (1993), a National Book Award finalist, Atlantis (1995), Sweet Machine (1998), Source (2001), School of the Arts (2005) and Deep Lane (2015).

His prose includes the memoirs Heaven's Coast (1996), Firebird (1999) and Dog Years (2007), as well as Still Life with Oysters and Lemon (2001), a meditation on a still-life painting. Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (2008), drawn from twenty years of work, won the 2008 National Book Award for Poetry.

Doty's poems pay close attention to the physical world, to art and to grief, in a voice that moves between plain speech and richly detailed description.