Monday @ KGB: Tom Healy & Mark Doty

The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series
Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone
Presents . . .

Tom Healy & Mark Doty
Monday, March 8 @ 7:30 PM
Admission is FREE

Tom Healy's poems and essays have appeared in BOMB, the Yale Review, Paris Review, Tin House, Salmagundi and other journals. His book, What the Right Hand Knows, is a finalist for the 2009 LA Times Book Award. Healy studied at Harvard and Columbia. He lives in New York City and Miami.

 Mark Doty’s Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. His eight books of poems include School of the Arts, Source, and My Alexandria. He has also published four volumes of nonfiction prose: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Heaven's Coast, Firebird and Dog Years, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2007. Doty’s poems  have appeared in many magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, The London Review of Books, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The New Yorker.  Widely anthologized, his poems appear in The Norton Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry and many other collections. Doty's work has been honored by the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, two Lambda Literary Awards  and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. He is the only American poet to have received the T.S. Eliot Prize in the U.K., and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill and Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Doty lives in New York City and on the east end of Long Island. In the fall of 2009, he joined the faculty at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

KGB Bar
85 E. 4th St.
(Between Bowery & 2nd Ave.)
New York, NY 10003

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series
Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone
Presents . . .

Tom Healy & Mark Doty
Monday, March 8 @ 7:30 PM
Admission is FREE

Tom Healy's poems and essays have appeared in BOMB, the Yale Review, Paris Review, Tin House, Salmagundi and other journals. His book, What the Right Hand Knows, is a finalist for the 2009 LA Times Book Award. Healy studied at Harvard and Columbia. He lives in New York City and Miami.

 Mark Doty’s Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. His eight books of poems include School of the Arts, Source, and My Alexandria. He has also published four volumes of nonfiction prose: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Heaven's Coast, Firebird and Dog Years, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2007. Doty’s poems  have appeared in many magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, The London Review of Books, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The New Yorker.  Widely anthologized, his poems appear in The Norton Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry and many other collections. Doty's work has been honored by the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, two Lambda Literary Awards  and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. He is the only American poet to have received the T.S. Eliot Prize in the U.K., and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill and Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Doty lives in New York City and on the east end of Long Island. In the fall of 2009, he joined the faculty at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

KGB Bar
85 E. 4th St.
(Between Bowery & 2nd Ave.)
New York, NY 10003

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.

Tom Healy & Mark Doty
Monday, March 8 @ 7:30 PM
Admission is FREE

Tom Healy's poems and essays have appeared in BOMB, the Yale Review, Paris Review, Tin House, Salmagundi and other journals. His book, What the Right Hand Knows, is a finalist for the 2009 LA Times Book Award. Healy studied at Harvard and Columbia. He lives in New York City and Miami.

 Mark Doty’s Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. His eight books of poems include School of the Arts, Source, and My Alexandria. He has also published four volumes of nonfiction prose: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Heaven's Coast, Firebird and Dog Years, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2007. Doty’s poems  have appeared in many magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, The London Review of Books, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The New Yorker.  Widely anthologized, his poems appear in The Norton Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry and many other collections. Doty's work has been honored by the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, two Lambda Literary Awards  and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. He is the only American poet to have received the T.S. Eliot Prize in the U.K., and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill and Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Doty lives in New York City and on the east end of Long Island. In the fall of 2009, he joined the faculty at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

KGB Bar
85 E. 4th St.
(Between Bowery & 2nd Ave.)
New York, NY 10003

For the complete KGB spring lineup, click here.