Sep 27 2006 12:00AM
As part of its Lyceum series, Pensacola Junior College is presenting internationally acclaimed poet Mark Doty.
Doty is giving a reading/lecture 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11, in the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Bldg. 8, and holding a workshop 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, in the Barfield Administration Building boardroom, Bldg. 7. Both events are on the Pensacola campus, 1000 College Blvd.
Doty’s poems have appeared in major publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and he is widely anthologized in leading textbooks such as “The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry.”
Doty is best known for his book of poems inspired by the loss of his partner, Wally Roberts, to AIDS in 1994. He has written six other collections of poetry and three volumes of nonfiction prose, including “Heaven’s Coast,” a memoir that parallels the poems dedicated to Roberts.
His accolades include the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Doty is the only American poet to have received the T.S. Eliot Prize in the United Kingdom.
General admission tickets for the reading/lecture are $10; seniors, children, non-PJC students, $8; Senior Club members, PJC staff, faculty, retirees, $6; PJC students, free. VISA, MasterCard, American Express, cash or check are accepted.
Purchase tickets at the Lyceum box office in the Ashmore. For more information, call 484-1847.
The workshop is free and seating is limited. For a reservation, call the PJC English/Communications department at 484-1400.