Aficionados of contemporary poetry have probably read or heard of Mark Doty. He has authored four collections (Turtle Swan, Bethlehem in Broad Day
light, The Mark of the World, and The Open Boat) and has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has also been awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award,