Connecticut’s former Poet Laureate Marilyn Nelson to read and discuss her work Oct. 29 at Quinnipiac University


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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