Poet-in-Residence Program
Since its initiation in 1981, the Poet-in-Residence program has brought writers of national and international renown for an extended stay during the spring semester. The Poet-in-Residence teaches a master class for qualified students, gives a public reading and a lecture or Q&A session, and otherwise serves as an active presence on campus. The program honors the acheivement of a distinguished poet while providing undergraduate writers the opportunity to work with that poet.
Poets are chosen by invitation only; the Stadler Center does not accept applications for this position.
Mark Doty
Poet-in-Residence 2011–12
January 28 - February 9, 2012
Mark Doty's Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. His eight books of poems include School of the Arts, Source, and My Alexandria. He has also published four volumes of nonfiction prose: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Heaven's Coast, Firebird and Dog Years, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2007.
Doty's poems have appeared in many magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, The London Review of Books, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The New Yorker. Widely anthologized, his poems appear in The Norton Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry and many other collections.
Doty's work has been honored by the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, two Lambda Literary Awards and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. He is the only American poet to have received the T.S. Eliot Prize in the U.K., and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill and Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Doty lives in New York City and on the east end of Long Island. He teaches at Rutgers University.
Events for Mark Doty
Poetry Reading
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
7 p.m., Bucknell Hall
A Conversaton with Mark Doty
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
4 p.m., Willard Smith Library, Vaughan Literature Building
Both events are free and open to the public.
Former Poets-in-Residence
1981-82 Carolyn Kizer
1982-83 Maxine Kumin
1983-84 Hayden Carruth
1984-85 Karl Shapiro
1985-86 Mary Oliver
1986-87 Wendell Berry
1987-88 Madeline DeFrees
1988-89 Irving Feldman
1989-90 Jean Valentine
1990-91 Louis Simpson
1991-92 Colette Inez
1992-93 Molly Peacock
1993-94 Gerald Stern
1994-95 Bruce Smith
1995-96 William Matthews
1996-97 Afaa M. Weaver
1997-98 Tess Gallagher
1998-99 Peggy Shumaker
1999-00 Linda Gregg
2000-01 John Haines
2001-02 Betsy Sholl
2002-03 Sonia Sanchez
2003-04 Liliana Ursu
2004-05 Michael Waters
2005-06 Carol Frost
2006-07 Marilyn Chin
2007-08 James Harms
2008-09 Nance Van Winckel
2009-10 Tim Seibles
2010-11 Natasha Trethewey
