Doty's sixth book of verse (the first since his memoir Firebird) continues his exploration of gay male desire and post-AIDS mourning amid vividly rendered scenes from ...

A sentence written by poet and author Mark Doty appeared verbatim in the threatening letter sent to 11 gay bars in Seattle. “This is just repellent,” Mark Doty writes in an email. “On the literal ...

Poet Mark Doty, winner of the 2008 National Book Award for poetry, discusses his favorite listener-submitted poems with NPR's Michel Martin. And now it's time for poetry. In honor of National Poetry ...

Doty's first book, Turtle, Swan, appeared in 1987. He has published six books of poetry and four memoirs, all excellent, since. This hefty selection from his seven collections, plus a generous sheaf ...

Taking a breather during an afternoon romp, poet Mark Doty describes looking up at his lover only to find himself face to face with Walt Whitman. He doesn’t mean this figuratively. “It’s pointless, at ...

Walt Whitman was as far from “social distancing” as you can get. As a young man, he worked a variety of public jobs as schoolteacher, journalist, bookseller, carpenter and house builder; his long, ...

“A new book of poems—or of anything—by Mark Doty is good news in a dark time,” W. S. Merwin once wrote. “The precision, daring, scope, elegance of his compassion and of the language in which he ...

And now it's time for poetry. In honor of National Poetry Month, April, we've been asking you to submit your original poems on Twitter or TikTok. And joining us now to talk about some of your ...