Mark Doty

Fall 2023 Writer-In-Residence

The Fall 2023 Harman Writer-In-Residence will be poet Mark Doty. Among his honors are the Whiting Writer’s Award, the T.S. Eliot Prize, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and a National Book Award for Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (2008). His career began in 1987 with the publication of the collection Turtle, Swan. Since then, “His syntactically complex and aesthetically profound free verse poems…have been hailed as some of the most original and arresting poetry written today” (Poetry Foundation). His third collection, My Alexandria, won the National Poetry Series and received critical acclaim for its quietly heartbreaking portrayal of the AIDS epidemic.

To date, he has published thirteen collections of poetry and four memoirs. His latest work, What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life, can be purchased here.