Mark Doty Wins National Book Award

Congratulations to Mark Doty, winner of the 2008 National Book Award in Poetry for his book Fire to Fire. The book includes both new poems and work selected from his seven previous collections. The poet blogs at http://markdoty.blogspot.com/, where he wrote a delightful post on the NBA finalists' group reading-- and will presumably be writing on the experience of winning the high accolade shortly as well. The NBA website features information on and interviews with all of the nominees. http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2008.html

Winner: Mark Doty, Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems
Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival
Reginald Gibbons, Creatures of a Day
Richard Howard, Without Saying
Patricia Smith, Blood Dazzler

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[Tao Lin]

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[Tao Lin]

HELP ME GET THIS, COMMENT ALL INFORMATION THAT WILL HELP ME GET THIS, THANK YOU EVERYONE, PLEASE HELP ME, GIVE ME DOSSIER TIPS, ETC., THANK YOU
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[END THAT PART]

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[tao]

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