Griffin Poetry Prize Judges Announced November 7, 2012: And they are Breyten Breytenbach, Suzanne Buffam, and Mark Doty. From the Griffin website: All three judges understand the importance of the Griffin Poetry Prize’s international reach and may consequently call in books of English language poetry from around the world. The shortlisted books (four International and three [...] by Harriet Staff

Watch a Live Stream of Mark Doty Reading from His Meditations of Whitman. And His Poems, Of Course July 20, 2012: The folks at the San Francisco Zen Center City Center are at it again with another great event available to those in the Bay area. And everyone else! This Saturday they present GLOW AT THE EXTREMEST VERGE: AN EVENING WITH MARK DOTY. From their press release: In celebrating our five decades of cultural and spiritual engagement, we are [...] by Harriet Staff