Marilyn Nelson
Baruch Performing Arts Center
Tuesday, November 18th
The New Salon: Poets in Conversation
Presented
by The Poetry Society of America and the Baruch College English
Department, "Poets in Conversation" will feature dialogue with author
Marilyn Nelson and Professor Grace Schulman.
Marilyn
Nelson is the author or translator of fifteen poetry books, including
The Fields Of Praise: New And Selected Poems, which won the 1998 Poets’
Prize, Carver: A Life In Poems, which won the 2001 Boston Globe/Hornbook
Award and the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, and Fortune’s Bones, which
was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and won the Lion and the Unicorn
Award for Excellence in North American Poetry. In 2013 she published a
memoir, How I Discovered Poetry. Nelson’s honors include two NEA
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. She was the Poet Laureate of
Connecticut from 2001-2006.
6:00 pm; FREE admission
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