Mark Doty

Aaron Smith's new collection, PRIMER, is due from Pitt on October 5 of this year. Here's a dead-on comment from Tracy K. Smith ab...

It's easy to see that this blog's been languishing a while. I've been thinking about why that's the case. It's a form I ...

Recently I spent a morning at The Nightingale School in Manhattan, a private school for girls that has a deep commitment to writing and lite...

The first time I went to one of Stanley Kunitz's birthday parties, he was just turning 90. I was sent by a magazine to write about the e...

The American Poetry Review seems like it's been around for my entire life as a poet, and when I went to look up the year of the journal...

STORY QUARTERLY,  a distinguished and long-lived journal from Camden, New Jersey, Whitman's home for many years, published this essay o...

Here's a terrific review of DEEP LANE,  written by Doni M. Wilson and just out from the Houston Chronicle. I recommend a look at the C...