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Award Winning Poet Mark Doty to Visit Ramapo College

(PDF) (DOC) (JPG)October 29, 2015

MAHWAH, N.J. – Acclaimed poet Mark Doty will visit Ramapo College of New Jersey on Tuesday, November 10.  Doty will join Ramapo Professor James Hoch for a presentation at 4 p.m. and Doty will offer a reading at 7 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion. Both events are sponsored by Readings at Ramapo and are free and open to the public.

Mark Doty is an accomplished poet, commended for his intimate free verse poems and memoirs.  His recent work includes poetry collections Deep Lane and Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, earning Doty the National Book Award for Poetry. Doty was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Art, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation.

For information on the event, contact Professor Hugh Sheehy at hsheehy@ramapo.edu

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Ramapo College of New Jersey is the state’s premier public liberal arts college and is committed to academic excellence through interdisciplinary and experiential learning, and international and intercultural understanding. The comprehensive college is situated among the beautiful Ramapo Mountains, is within commuting distance to New York City, was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful College Campuses in America by CondeNast Traveler, and boasts the best on-campus housing in New Jersey per Niche.com. Established in 1969, Ramapo College offers bachelor’s degrees in the arts, business, data science, humanities, social sciences and the sciences, as well as in professional studies, which include business, education, nursing and social work. In addition, the College offers courses leading to teacher certification at the elementary and secondary levels, and offers graduate programs leading to master’s degrees in Accounting, Applied Mathematics, Business Administration, Contemporary Instructional Design, Computer Science, Creative Music Technology, Data Science, Educational Leadership, Nursing, Social Work and Special Education, as well as a Doctor of Nursing Practice.

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