Around Town: Mark Doty

Contributed by Seattle Arts & Lectures on City Arts' Around Town Flickr pool.
Photographed by Libby Lewis

Poet Mark Doty, National Book Award Winner, recently read his work to fans at Benaroya Hall.

From "In the Airport Marshes":

"...these definitions

wait to be lived,
actual as these frogs,
who chorus as if
there’s no tomorrow,

or else they’ve all
the time in the world."

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