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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:center'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:
18.0pt;color:red'>WORD OF MOUTH POETRY SERIES</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:red'>Featuring Marilyn Nelson</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:center'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:
14.5pt;color:blue'>Thursday, December 17, 2009</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:blue'>6:30 PM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:center'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='color:#333333'>Doors
Open at 6:30. Reading starts at 7:00.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:center'><span style='color:#333333'>Please arrive a few minutes
early to sign up for the reading.<br>
<br>
The Institute Library<br>
847 Chapel Street<br>
New Haven, CT</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='color:#080808'> </span></b><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='color:#080808'>P</span><span style='color:black'>oet Marilyn Nelson is
the author or translator of twelve books and three chapbooks. Her book</span></span><span
class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black'> </span></span><em><span
style='color:black'>The Homeplace</span></em><span class=apple-converted-space><span
style='color:black'> </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='color:black'>won the 1992 Annisfield-Wolf Award and was a finalist for
the 1991 National Book Award.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span
style='color:black'> </span></span><em><span style='color:black'>The
Fields Of Praise: New And Selected Poems</span></em><span
class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black'> </span></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='color:black'>won the 1998 Poets' Prize and
was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Award, the PEN Winship Award, and the
Lenore Marshall Prize.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span
style='color:black'> </span></span><em><span style='color:black'>Carver: A
Life In Poems</span></em><span class=apple-converted-space><span
style='color:black'> </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='color:black'>won the 2001 Boston Globe/Hornbook Award and the Flora
Stieglitz Straus Award, was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award, a
Newbery Honor Book, and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book.</span></span><span
class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black'> </span></span><em><span
style='color:black'>Fortune’s Bones</span></em><span
class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black'> </span></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='color:black'>was a Coretta Scott King Honor
Book and won the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American
Poetry.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black'> </span></span><em><span
style='color:black'>A Wreath For Emmett Till</span></em><span
class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black'> </span></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='color:black'>won the 2005 Boston Globe–Horn
Book Award and was a 2006 Coretta Scott King Honor Book, a 2006 Michael L.
Printz Honor Book, and a 2006 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor Book.</span></span><span
class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black'> </span></span><em><span
style='color:black'>The Cachoiera Tales And Other Poems</span></em><span
class=apple-converted-space><i><span style='color:black'> </span></i></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='color:black'>won the L.E. Phillabaum Award
and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Nelson's newest book
of poetry, </span></span><em><span style='color:black'>Sweethearts of
Rhythm</span></em><span class=apple-style-span><span style='color:black'>, was
released in 2009 from Dial.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in;line-height:12.75pt'><span style='color:black'>Her honors
include two NEA creative writing fellowships, the 1990 Connecticut Arts Award,
an A.C.L.S. Contemplative Practices Fellowship, a Fulbright Teaching
Fellowship, and a fellowship from the J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Nelson is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut;
founder and director of Soul Mountain Retreat, a small writers’ colony; and was
Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut from 2001-2006.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='color:#333333'>On the third Thursday of
each month, Word of Mouth Poetry Series celebrates an eclectic mix of poetic
voices. Free. Refreshments. Open mike. Outstanding featured readers. In a
casual setting. Open to all members of the public and even others. For more
information, please contact <a href="mailto:allwordofmouth@gmail.com"
target="_blank"><span style='color:#2357C3'>allwordofmouth@gmail.com</span></a> or <a
href="mailto:mcguireschwartz@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style='color:
#2357C3'>mcguireschwartz@gmail.com</span></a>. </span><span style='color:red'> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='color:#333333'>Word of Mouth is an affiliate of Arts and Literature
Laboratory. Please visit the ALL website at <a
href="http://allgallery.org/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#2357C3'>allgallery.org</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='color:black'>Please also support our sister
series, Wednesday Night Poetry Series and visit the WNPS website at <a
href="http://wedpoetry.net/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#2A5DB0'>wedpoetry.net</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The
Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American
Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post announcements
about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text of the announcement,
including contact information, to <a
href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings">nancy.kuhl at
yale.edu.</a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be
posted. <br>
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: <a
href="https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com">https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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