Mark Doty
American Poet Mark Doty takes up International Visiting Poetry Fellowship at Queen’s University
American Poet Mark Doty takes up International Visiting Poetry Fellowship at Queen’s University : News article ID 1127320
Award-winning American poet, Mark Doty, has taken up his post as the first International Visiting Poetry Fellow at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast.
Mark Doty (2018)
Mark Doty is best known for his powerful work written in response to the AIDS epidemic and his nine books of poems include My Alexandria, which won the US National Book Critics Circle Award and became the first book by an American poet to win the T. S. Eliot Prize in the UK in 1995. A former Guggenheim Fellow and Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, he currently lives in New York City.