The Art of Description

    A book-length essay on the art of saying what you see, a forthcoming volume in Graywolf's new series of "The Art of..." books, each authored by a different writer, each examining an aspect of the writer's craft.  

The Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series

    This new series of books restores all-but-lost volumes of contemporary poetry to print. Mark Doty is the series editor, and each book will be introduced by a contemporary poet who cares passionately about the work at hand. The first volume in the series, THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LYNDA HULL, will be published in Fall of 2006, with an introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa. Upcoming volumes include work by Thomas James, introduced by Lucie Brock-Broido, and a re-issue of James L, White's magnificent 1982 collection, THE SALT ECSTASIES.

New & Selected Poems

       Forthcoming from HarperCollins. 

Here in Hell: On Writing, Reading and the Writing Life

       A dozen years worth of essays: grief and the uses of art, Elizabeth Bishop, Frank O'Hara, May Swenson, memoir and betrayal, the streets of Houston, Key West, Provincetown, Walt Whitman, the Reverend Fred Phelps, Dante, Wallace Stevens, Lucien Freud...