![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eliot Prize, for My Alexandria, about the AIDS epidemic in 2008, he won the National Book Award for a book of new and selected poems, Fire to Fire. In 1995, Doty became the first American poet to win the United Kingdom’s T.S. The most recent, Dog Years, about the pets he adopted as companions for his dying partner, became a New York Times bestseller in 2007. In addition to several volumes of poetry, he has also written two books of criticism (one on The Art of Description, the other inspired by a seventeenth-century Dutch still life) and three memoirs. Mark Doty, best known for his writing on bereavement and gay life, teaches at Rutgers. This is traditionally the opening event of Commencement week, and during it, the society confers honorary memberships and its undergraduates recognize outstanding faculty teachers. Writer Mark Doty and social psychologist Sherry Turkle will speak at this year’s Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises, which will take place in Sanders Theatre on May 23. ![]()
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