Tonight Only! Marilyn Nelson is at Word of Mouth New Haven.
Elizabeth Cleary
Thursday, December 17, 2009 at The Institute Library, 847 Chapel
Street, New Haven, CT
A unique reading in a unique location. Don't miss it!
Doors Open at 6:30. Open Mike starts at 7:00. Arrive early to
sign up for the reading!
* Poet Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of twelve books and
three
chapbooks. Her book The Homeplace won the 1992 Annisfield-Wolf Award
and was
a finalist for the 1991 National Book Award. The Fields Of Praise: New
And
Selected Poems won the 1998 Poets' Prize and was a finalist for the
1997
National Book Award, the PEN Winship Award, and the Lenore Marshall
Prize. Carver:
A Life In Poems won the 2001 Boston Globe/Hornbook Award and the Flora
Stieglitz Straus Award, was a finalist for the 2001 National Book
Award, a
Newbery Honor Book, and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. Fortune’s
Bones was
a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and won the Lion and the Unicorn Award
for
Excellence in North American Poetry. A Wreath For Emmett Till won the
2005
Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and was a 2006 Coretta Scott King Honor
Book, a
2006 Michael L. Printz Honor Book, and a 2006 Lee Bennett Hopkins
Poetry
Award Honor Book. The Cachoiera Tales And Other Poems won the L.E.
Phillabaum Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book
Award.
Nelson's newest book of poetry, Sweethearts of Rhythm, was released in
2009
from Dial.*
Her honors include two NEA creative writing fellowships, the 1990
Connecticut Arts Award, an A.C.L.S. Contemplative Practices
Fellowship, a
Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, and a fellowship from the J.S.
Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation. Nelson is a professor emeritus of English at the
University of Connecticut; founder and director of Soul Mountain
Retreat, a
small writers’ colony; and was Poet Laureate of the State of
Connecticut
from 2001-2006.
On the third Thursday of each month, Word of Mouth Poetry Series
celebrates
an eclectic mix of poetic voices. Free. Refreshments. Open mike.
Outstanding
featured readers. In a casual setting. Open to all members of the
public and
even others. For more information, please contact
allwordofmo...@gmail.com
or mcguireschwa...@gmail.com.
Word of Mouth is an affiliate of Arts and Literature Laboratory.
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and
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