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Golden Rose Award Presentation and Reading
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Join us as the New England Poetry Club presents the Golden Rose Award to Mark Doty. The poet will also read a selection of his works.
Mark Doty is the author of nine books of poetry, including Deep Lane, Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the 2008 National Book Award, and My Alexandria, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the T.S. Eliot Prize in the UK. He is also the author of three memoirs: the New York Times-bestselling Dog Years, Firebird, and Heaven’s Coast, as well as a book about craft and criticism, The Art of Description: World Into Word. Doty has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, a Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Award, and the Witter Byner Prize.
The Golden Rose Award is one of the oldest literary prizes in the United States, first awarded 100 years ago in 1919. The Rose is awarded to a poet, who through their works, have made a significant mark on American poetry. Past winners include three Nobel Laureates – Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and Czeslaw Milosz, and several Pulitzer Prize recipients. Other winners include American icons Robert Frost, Katherine Lee Bates, Archibald MacLeish, David McCord, Robert Lowell, Stanley Kunitz, X.J. Kennedy, May Sarton, Adrienne Rich, Robert Penn Warren, John Updike and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters NHS is honored to help keep this tradition alive with the New England Poetry Club.
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