Mark Doty

Mark Doty is the author of eight poetry collections including, Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008 and My Alexandria, which won the 1995 T. S. Eliot Prize. What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life will be published in April 2020. He lives in New York City.

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

On the Extremest Verge

Mark Doty

Mark Doty on the sly wit and visionary luminosity of Walt Whitman.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 151

You Are Here, You Are Not a Ghost

Mark Doty

‘Does it make you a little ghostly yourself, when what’s gone is more present for you than what’s here?’

Poetry | Issue 129

Apparition

Mark Doty

‘an orange plastic basket of compost / down from the top of the garden – sweet dark, / fibrous rot, promising’

In Conversation | Issue 129

Will Self & Mark Doty | Podcast

Mark Doty & Will Self

Will Self and Mark Doty's discussion with Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing about blood, the surprising relationship between Bram Stoker and Walt Whitman and the nature of addiction.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 117

Insatiable

Mark Doty

‘Behind every man I want to kiss lies that original desire, which it is my nature and my fate to displace.’

Fiction | Issue 110

The Unwriteable

Mark Doty

‘When I was seventeen, a freshman in college living in my parents’ house, I met Ruth at a poetry reading.’

Mark Doty

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

On the Extremest Verge

Mark Doty

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You Are Here, You Are Not a Ghost

Mark Doty

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Poetry | Issue 129 <img src="https://granta.com/wp-content/themes/granta/img/closed-lock.png" class="padlock single-contributor_related_padlock" alt="padlock">

Apparition

Mark Doty

In Conversation | Issue 129

In Conversation | Issue 129

Will Self & Mark Doty | Podcast

Mark Doty & Will Self

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Insatiable

Mark Doty

Fiction | Issue 110 <img src="https://granta.com/wp-content/themes/granta/img/closed-lock.png" class="padlock single-contributor_related_padlock" alt="padlock">

Fiction | Issue 110 <img src="https://granta.com/wp-content/themes/granta/img/closed-lock.png" class="padlock single-contributor_related_padlock" alt="padlock">

The Unwriteable

Mark Doty

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 151

Essays & Memoir | Issue 151

Poetry | Issue 129

Poetry | Issue 129

Essays & Memoir | Issue 117

Essays & Memoir | Issue 117

Fiction | Issue 110

Fiction | Issue 110