Photo: Mark Doty
Mark Doty, a renowned poetry and prose writer, is a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. He is the author of three memoirs: Dog Years, Firebird, and Heaven’s Coast, as well as a book about craft and criticism, The Art of Description: World into Word.
Doty is also the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Deep Lane. Another book, Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, was published in 2008 and won the National Book Award for that year. Doty is the first American poet to have won Great Britain’s T. S. Eliot Prize, for My Alexandria (published in 1993), which also received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
“We are delighted to have Mark Doty join us as the keynote poet for this, our seventh festival,” says Chris Goulian, Academic Dean at The Masters School. “Providing our students with the opportunity to hear and learn from a poet of Doty’s talent typifies the kind of education that we value here at The Masters School. I am confident that he, along with the other outstanding poets joining us this year, will likewise be impressed with the work of our own student poets.”
Jennifer Franklin, the Director of Programming at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center,” adds: “The Center is thrilled to co-sponsor the Westchester Poetry Festival again. There has never been a better time for us to sit in a room and listen to Doty’s poems, which are filled with radical tenderness.”
The event will take place from 1:00-5:00 p.m. in Estherwood Mansion on The Masters School campus.