He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Deep Lane and Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the National Book Award. I was happy in any chair, though I liked best // the touch of the oldest, who’d rest his hand / against my neck in a thoughtless, confident way. AugGenre Poetry, Biographies & Memoirs edit data Mark Doty is a poet, essayist, and memoirist.
He teaches at Rutgers and lives in New York City. Mark Doty, in his poem This Your Home Now, reflects on the intimacy of sitting in the barber’s chair.
He was a 2001-02 fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. and the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Rockefeller, and Whiting Foundations. He has received fellowships from the N.E.A. Eliot Prize, the PEN/ Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. His books have won the Ambassador Book Award, the Bingham Poetry Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award, Britain's T. S. He is also at work on a new collection of poems, Deep Lane, and a prose study of Walt Whitman titled What Is the Grass both will be published by W. This spring Prestel Publishing will publish his collaboration with the painter Darren Waterston, A Swarm, a Flock, a Host: Mark Doty and Darren Waterston’s Compendium of Creatures. Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (Harper Perennial, 2008), which was awarded The National Book Award in 2008. Mark Doty is the author of six books of poems, two memoirs, and the essay Still Life With Oysters and Lemon.
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