Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Mark Doty reads from his book length poem "Atlantis" (HarperCollins, 2019).

Mark Doty was born in 1953 in Maryville, Tennessee. He has published nine collections of poetry, including National Book Award-winning Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2008), and four volumes of nonfiction. Doty’s most recent publication is What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life (W.W. Norton, 2020), a fusion of memoir, criticism, and essay.