Doty, Mark 1994
with Stuart Dybek
Suddenly the stairs seem to climb down themselves,
atomized plaster billowing: dust of 1907’s
rooming house, this year’s bake shop and florist’s,
the ghosts of their signs faint above the windows
lined, last week, with loaves and blooms.
– Mark Doty, “Demolition”
Listen to Mark Doty’s 1994 reading for the Poetry Center of Chicago:
Read this interview with Mark Doty from The Cortland Review:
Mark Doty (1) – December 1998 Feature
FEATURE Mark Doty Mark Wunderlich interviews Mark Doty Bruce Canwell Writers on Writing 5: It Takes All Kinds R.T. Smith A Day in the Life of poet and editor R.T. Smith. Mark Doty is the author of four poetry collections, the most recent of which isSweet Machine, published in 1998 by Harper Flamingo, and the memoirHeaven’s Coast, which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction.
Wrapped in gold foil, in the search
and shouting of Easter Sunday,
it was the ball of the princess,
it was Pharoah’s body
sleeping in its golden case.
– Mark Doty, “Ararat”
Watch Mark Doty read his work at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival:
Mark Doty reading at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival
“The House of Beauty”
