On Tuesday, March 25th, internationally acclaimed poet and author Mark Doty read excerpts from a variety of his works as this year's Shaw Lecturer. At noon during Common Hour Doty read from his memoirs. In the evening he presented a poetry reading followed by a book signing in the Great Room of the Stern Center. Doty is a professor of English at the University of Houston and has won an assortment of awards including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Britain's T. S. Eliot Prize and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award.