[Yale-readings] TODAY--Poetry Reading: Kwame Dawes and Marilyn Nelson at Beinecke 11-9, 4pm
Nancy Kuhl
nancy.kuhl at yale.edu
Wed Nov 9 08:51:05 EST 2005
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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