Poet Mark Doty will come to the Hamilton College campus in January as the Kirkland Project 2003 artist-in-residence. Doty, the first guest of the spring term for the Kirkland Project's "Masculinities" series, will present a lecture and reading. Both are free and open to the public.
Doty will present a lecture, "How (Not) to Be a Boy: Mark Doty on Masculinity," on Thursday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m., in Kirner-Johnson 109 (the Red Pit). This exploration of questions of masculinity from various angles draws from his memoir(s) and poems.
Doty will read from his poetry and prose on Friday, Jan. 31, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn, Beinecke Student Activities Village.
Doty is an award-winning poet and memoirist, author of Heaven's Coast and Firebird, and five books of poetry, including My Alexandria (University of Illinois Press, 1993), which was chosen for the National Poetry Series by Philip Levine; it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, Britain's T.S. Eliot Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Doty's visit is co-sponsored by the department of English. For more information, contact the Kirkland Project office at 315-859-4288.
