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 Mark
Doty is among the most prominent poets of his generation.
Author of seven volumes of poetry and three major memoirs,
Doty is one of the most celebrated American poets to emerge
from the 1980s and 1990s.
Most notable in this respect are the highly praised volumes
of poetry My Alexandria (1993) and Atlantis (1995)
and the prose memoir Heaven's Coast (1996), which deal
poignantly and frankly with the failing health and ultimate
death of Doty's partner Wally Roberts.
His most recent book Fire to Fire was awarded the National
Book Award in 2008. My Alexandria was chosen by Philip
Levine for the National Poetry Series, won the National Book
Critics Circle Award, and was a National Book Award finalist.
The volume also won Britain's T.S. Eliot Prize, making Doty
the first American to earn that honor. In addition to numerous
awards such as the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize of the American
Academy of Arts & Letters, Doty has also received fellowships
from the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Rockefeller, and Whiting
foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
We have been honored to have Mark Doty as the inaugural judge
of the White Crane/James White Poetry Prize.
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