National Book Award winner Mark Doty comes to Ashland
Mark Doty, National Book Award-winning poet and New York Times best-selling author, will read and discuss his work in Ashland this month as part of the ongoing Chautauqua Poets & Writers series.
Doty's talk is at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, at Ashland High School's Mountain Avenue Theater. Tickets are $15, $12 for students with identification.
In addition to his reading, Doty will be interviewed at 9 a.m. on Oct. 29 on Jefferson Public Radio's "Jefferson Exchange." He will also conduct a writing workshop for the Oregon Writing Project with teachers and alumni, and another for students from throughout the Rogue Valley.
Doty's collection of poems "My Alexandria" won Great Britain's T.S. Eliot prize in 1995, and he remains the only American poet to have won it. His collection "Fire to Fire" won the National Book Award in 2008, praised by judges for the "ferocious compassion" of its poems.
Doty's memoir "Dog Years" was a New York Times best-seller in 2007.
He teaches creative writing at Rutgers University, and is a frequent guest at Columbia University, Hunter College and NYU.
Tickets to the reading may be purchased in Medford at Grilla Bites. Ashland ticket vendors are Bloomsbury Books, The Bookwagon and Tree House Books. Student tickets are available at the main office of Ashland High School.
The Chautauqua Poets & Writers series brings writers to the Rogue Valley to read their work and teach their craft to area students.
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