Kellogg Writers Series
2007-2008 Season

Mark Doty Poet Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007 Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center 8:00 PM

Click here for more information about Spirit and Place Specific details about Mark Doty's appearance are here.

Acclaimed writer Mark Doty is the author of seven books of poetry and three memoirs, including Heaven's Coast, a moving meditation on illness and loss written in response to his partner's death from AIDS. He has won numerous awards that include two NEA fellowships, Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, a Lile Wallace / Readers Digest Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Witter Byner Prize, and Great Britain's T.S. Eliot prize. He teaches in the graduate writing program at the University of Houston and resides in both Houston and New York. He speaks as part of the Spirit and Place Festival.

In addition to his reading, Doty will lead a creative writing class at the University of Indianapolis and give a talk meditating on selected objects in the Indianapolis Museum of Art collection.

Writers can sign up for the workshop on a first-come, first-served basis; contact Jennifer Drake at jdrake@uindy.edu. For more information on the IMA event, which also requires a reservation, go to http://www.ima.museum/calendar/markdoty.