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Mark Doty was born on 10 August, 1953 in Maryville, Tennessee, U.S., is an American poet and memoirist (born 1953). Discover Mark Doty's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Born 10 August 1953
Birthday 10 August
Birthplace Maryville, Tennessee, U.S.
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1953

Mark Doty (born August 10, 1953) is an American poet and memoirist best known for his work My Alexandria. He was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008.

Mark Doty was born in Maryville, Tennessee, to Lawrence and Ruth Doty, with an older sister, Sarah Alice Doty.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.

1980

The 1980s marked the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the United States.

The Reagan administration's delayed action to fight AIDS resulted in thousands of deaths, especially among young gay men.

Some believe the initial reluctance to mobilize was due to homophobia—society was, at the time, uncomfortable with gay sexuality.

This poem criticizes the idea that gay men "invite[d] their own oppression as a consequence of pleasure."

The poem's phrase "he asked for it" represents this common, unsympathetic opinion about gay men with AIDS.

Imagery like "perfect stasis" and "body's paradise" is used by Doty to paint a future beyond brutality and discrimination for AIDS sufferers.

According to Landau, Doty's poems were "humane and comforting narratives" that offered hope to people living with HIV and stood in contrast to the hostile climate of the United States.

1987

Doty's first collection of poems, Turtle, Swan, was published by David R. Godine in 1987; a second collection, Bethlehem in Broad Daylight, appeared from the same publisher in 1991.

Booklist described his verse as "quiet, intimate" and praised its original style in turning powerful young urban experience into "an example of how we live, how we suffer and transcend suffering".

1989

In 1989, Doty's partner Wally Roberts tested positive for HIV.

The collection, written while Roberts had not yet become ill, contemplates the prospect of mortality, desperately attempting to find some way of making the prospect of loss even momentarily bearable.

My Alexandria was chosen for the National Poetry Series by Philip Levine, and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

When the book was published in the U.K.

by Jonathan Cape, Doty became the first American poet to win the T. S. Eliot Prize, Britain's most significant annual award for poetry.

1990

Doty's "Tiara" was printed in 1990 in an anthology called Poets for Life: Seventy-Six Poets Respond to AIDS.

This poem critiques the way society perceived and treated homosexual AIDS sufferers.

1993

His third book of poetry, My Alexandria (University of Illinois Press, 1993), reflects the grief, perceptions and new awareness gained in the face of great and painful loss.

1995

Doty had begun the poems collected in Atlantis (HarperCollins, 1995) when Roberts died in 1994.

The book won the Bingham Poetry Prize and the Ambassador Book Award.

1996

Heaven's Coast: A Memoir (HarperCollins, 1996), is a meditative account of losing a loved one, and a study in grief.

The book received the PEN Martha Albrand Award First Nonfiction.

Doty's three memoirs include Heaven's Coast, described as "searing" by The New York Times, is the excruciating journaling of his thoughts subsequent to hearing his lover's diagnosis with AIDS, a work "layered" with awarenesses like Dante's trip through hell (HarperCollins, 1996), and Firebird: A Memoir, an autobiography from six to sixteen, which tells the story of his childhood in the American South and in Arizona (HarperCollins, 1999).

These first two

memoirs received the American Library Associations Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award.

1998

His volumes of poetry include Sweet Machine (HarperCollins, 1998), Source, (HarperCollins, 2002), School of the Arts (HarperCollins, 2005) and Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2008), which received the National Book Award.

2001

Doty's essays include Still Life with Oysters and Lemon (Beacon Press, 2001), a book-length essay about 17th-century Dutch painting and our relationships to objects, and The Art of Description (Graywolf Books, 2010), a collection of four essays in which "Doty considers the task of saying what you see, and the challenges of rendering experience through language."

2005

His most recent memoir, Dog Years (HarperCollins, 2005), was a New York Times Bestseller and received the Barbara Gittings Literature Award from the American Library Association in 2008.

2006

He has also participated in The Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers, and was on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in August 2006.

He is the inaugural judge of the White Crane/James White Poetry Prize for Excellence in Gay Men's Poetry.

2011

In 2011, Doty was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

2012

He served as guest editor for The Best American Poetry 2012 (Scribners, 2012).

Doty has taught at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, Cornell and NYU.

He was the John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the graduate program at The University of Houston Creative Writing Program for ten years, and is Distinguished Professor and Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he directs Writers House.

2013

Doty was a judge for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize.

2014

In 2014, he was welcomed as a trustee of the Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry.

2015

Doty is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Deep Lane (W.W. Norton, 2015), a book of descents: into the earth beneath the garden, into the dark substrata of a life.

He has also written essays on still life painting, objects and intimacy, and a handbook for writers.