Internationally Renowned Poet, Essayist, and Memoirist, Mark Doty Visits College of Saint Elizabeth as Part of Visual Phrasing Program, March 28, 2011

Award-winning poet, essayist, and memoirist Mark Doty will give a reading, hold a Q&A session, and sign his books, on Monday, March 28, 2011, at 7 p.m. in the Octagon, located in the Mahoney Library, on the campus of the College of Saint Elizabeth, 2 Convent Road, Morristown, N.J., at 7 p.m. At 3:15 p.m., also in the Octagon, Doty will present a master class on The Phrase in Poetry.

Both events are free and open to the public. For more information, call Lynne McEniry, 973-290-4413.

Doty is the only American poet to receive the T.S. Eliot Prize. He is also the recipient of the National Book Critics Award and is recognized as one of the most accomplished poets in America with his syntactically complex and aesthetically profound free verse poems. His writing translates the art of visual appearance into words. Doty s most recently the author of Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poetry, The Art of Description, and Dog Years, A Memoir.

“Doty is a master teacher, revered poet, and one of the most perceptive writers on the conversations between and among visual art and the written word,” says Dr. Laura Winters, CSE professor of English and the person instrumental in bringing renowned writers to campus each semester.

Doty’s appearance is funded by the CSE Poet and Writers Fund and is one of a series of events from the CSE Culture and Humanities area. It is part of a four-pronged project combining art, music, dance and poetry under the collective umbrella called The Phrase in Art. It is funded in part by a first-time grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, bringing the arts to all Americans, and providing leadership in arts education.

“The College is grateful to the NEA for its vision, recognition, and support of this project,” says Dr. Virginia Butera, chair of the CSE art and music departments and director of the Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery. “Since the Annunciation Center opened with the Maloney Art Gallery and Dolan Performance Hall, we have been able to create innovative, multi-disciplinary programs that explore intellectual ideas and the artistic experience in ways that larger museums and galleries are unable to do. The CSE art exhibitions and cultural programs are often based on the curricula and events on campus that re-enforce the important role that the arts play in daily life and also reflect the College’s emphasis on liberal arts education.”

Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey, the College of Saint Elizabeth enrolls more than 2,100 full- and part-time students in more than 25 undergraduate, 10 graduate and one doctoral degree programs. For information on other activities or programs, visit the College of Saint Elizabeth web site at www.cse.edu.