Poet Mark Doty, the Bingham Visiting Reader, read from his collection of poetry to Class I and II students in March. Mr. Doty’s Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems won the National Book Award in 2008.
Established in 1987, the Bingham Reader series brings accomplished creative writers to share their work on campus.
“If you know what you are going to say ahead of time, you are going to say what you already know. If you don’t know what you are going to say, you are going to discover something. And the discovery process is crucial to poetry, to good writing, because if you learn something, then the reader is going to feel that…the energy of finding out what you have to say makes writing alive.”