Monday @ KGB: Tom Healy & Mark Doty

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.