Connecticut’s former Poet Laureate Marilyn Nelson
to read and discuss her work Oct. 29 at Quinnipiac University
Hamden, Conn. – Oct. 17, 2012 – Marilyn Nelson, Connecticut’s poet laureate from
2001-2006, will read from her work during an open dialogue on creativity and the
arts at 2 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29, in the Carl Hansen Student Center, Room 120,
on Quinnipiac University’s<http://www.quinnipiac.edu/> Mount Carmel Campus.
This event is free and open to the public.
Of her work, Poet Mark Doty writes, “Nelson’s bold and sure poems long for
heaven and—happily for us—continue a lifelong affair with the occasions of
earth.”
Among Nelson’s books are: “The Homeplace;” “The Fields of Praise, Carver;”
“Fortune's Bones;” “Miss Crandall’s School,” which she wrote with Elizabeth
Alexander; “The Freedom Business;” “Sweethearts of Rhythm;” and “A Wreath for
Emmett Till.”
Nelson’s honors include two National Education Association creative writing
fellowships, the 1990 Connecticut Arts Award, a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, a
fellowship from the J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Frost Medal, the
Poetry Society of America's most prestigious award, for a "distinguished
lifetime achievement in poetry."
Nelson’s reading is part of the annual poetry tour of the Connecticut Poetry
Circuit, which also sponsors readings by Connecticut student poets each spring.
For more information, call 203-582-8652.
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