Saturday, May 29, 2010 - Saturday, May 29, 2010
1.00 - 3.00

The Master Class Poetry Workshop will be taught by Mark Doty, the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association's 2010 Poet in Residence.  Mr. Doty is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2008), which received the National Book Award; School of the Arts (2005); Source (2002); and Sweet Machine (1998).

Other collections include Atlantis (1995), which received the Ambassador Book Award, the Bingham Poetry Prize, and a Lambda Literary Award; My Alexandria (1993), chosen by Philip Levine for the National Poetry Series, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and Britain's T. S. Eliot Prize, and was also a National Book Award finalist; Bethlehem in Broad Daylight (1991); and Turtle, Swan (1987).

He has also published Heaven's Coast (1996), which the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Other memoir by Doty includes Firebird (1999), Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy (2000), and Dog Years (HarperCollins, 2007).

Doty has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Rockefeller, and Whiting foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Houston, Texas, where he teaches at the University of Houston.

Workshop participation is based upon applicant selection and is limited to 20 spots. 

Application reqquirements are:

- Submit three (3) poems typed with name, address and phone on each entry.

- Include a cover letter:  mention relevant professional literary information. 

- Must be a Whitman Birthplace Member to attend.  If not a member, please join when submitting your work, or pay a $5.00 handling/reading fee to be applied towards membership when you join.    

If selected for the Master Class, you must pay a $50 workshop fee payable by check or credit card.  All fees are non-refundable.

Deadline:  Entries must be postmarked by midnight, May 4, 2010.

Mail to:  WWBA Master Class, 246 Old Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station, NY  11746

Participants selected will be notified by May 26, 2010.  Each member must provide 20 collated sets of their own three (3) poems to be distributed at class.  The WWBA cannot provide copies.

For further details and to register:

Phone:  631-427-5240 x 112 Mon/Weds/Fri

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