[Yale-readings] Poetry Reading: Kwame Dawes and Marilyn Nelson at Beinecke 11-9, 4pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

A poetry reading by Kwame Dawes and Marilyn Nelson

Wednesday, November 9, 4pm
Beinecke Library
121 Wall Street

Kwame Dawes, poet, actor, editor, musician, and playwright, is professor of 
English at the University of South Carolina. His latest volumes of poetry 
are New and Selected Poems (2003) and the chapbook Bruised Totems (2004)

"Dawes is opening up a new aesthetic space in Caribbean Poetry. " David 
Dabydeen


Marilyn Nelson is Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut, professor 
emerita at the University of Connecticut, and founder of Soul Mountain 
Retreat, a writers' colony in East Haddam, CT. Among her latest volumes of 
poetry are Fortune's Bones:  The Manumission Requiem (2003) and  The 
Cachoeira Tales And Other Poems (2005), and forthcoming translations of the 
Danish poet Halfdan Rasmussen

Free and open to the public -- Reception follows

Sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the 
Department of African-American Studies at Yale University

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