b. 1953
Mark Doty
A poet and memoirist, Mark Doty has won the National Book Award as well as the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry (the only American to have won this award).
Photo: Mark Doty, Poets.org
Audio
“Golden Retrievals” (from “Bad Pets”)
Jan Opalach (bass-baritone)3:31
About
Born in Tennessee, Doty’s family moved often, as his father was in the army. After completing his undergraduate in Iowa (and a failed marriage while trying to deny his identity), Doty moved to Manhattan to study creative writing, where he met his partner Wally Roberts.
Roberts’s death from AIDS in 1994, after 12 years together, had a profound influence on Doty and on his writing. Soon after, Doty published Atlantis, with many volumes of poetry to follow. He is the winner of numerous other prizes and fellowships, including the Guggenheim.
–Christie Finn
Related Information
Poetry Foundation
poetryfoundation.org/poets/mark-dotyPoets.org
poets.org/poet/mark-dotyModern American Poetry
modernamericanpoetry.org/poet/mark-dotySongs
Evidence of Things Not Seen1997Ned RoremW. H. Auden, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Stephen Crane, Mark Doty, Robert Frost, Paul Goodman, A. E. Housman, Langston Hughes, Jane Kenyon, Rudyard Kipling, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Paul Monette, William Penn, Theodore Roethke, Walt Whitman, John Woolman, William Butler YeatsFaith1997 · Evidence of Things Not SeenNed RoremMark DotyOld Addresses2002William BolcomMark Doty, Langston Hughes, Kenneth Koch, Ezra Pound, A.D. Winans, Arnold WeinsteinThe Embrace2002 · Old AddressesWilliam BolcomMark DotyGolden Retrievals2007 · Bad PetsPaul SalerniMark Doty
Sheet Music
Old Addresses
William Bolcom
1. Lady Death
2. Histrion
3. Ballad of the Landlord
4. The Embrace
5. Africa
6. To My Old Addresses
2. Histrion
3. Ballad of the Landlord
4. The Embrace
5. Africa
6. To My Old Addresses