NEOMFA students can register for special workshops for either WORKSHOP or ELECTIVE CREDIT.  See the Courses Page to see where special  workshops can be counted.

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Fall 2009 NEOMFA VISITING WRITER: MARY MORRIS

Mark Doty will teach a four day--Thursday through Sunday October 1st-4th, 2009--one-credit hour poetry workshop from 10 am - 1:15 pm on the CSU Campus, in Rhodes Tower 415.

Together with fiction and memoir writer, Paul Lisicky, he will read at CSU on Thursday evening, and will talk at UA on Friday evening. See the NEOMFA Calendar for more information.

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. In the fall of 2009, he will join the faculty at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
 

To sign up for the Mark Doty Workshop, current NEOMFA students should contact their NEOMFA Campus Coordinator and call or email the NEOMFA office at 330-972-6328 or neomfa@kent.edu.

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