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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Marilyn Nelson</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121">Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of some twenty books of poetry. Her
<i>Carver: A Life in Poems </i>(2001), described as “ground-breaking” in several Children’s Literature textbooks, won Newbery Honors, Coretta Scott King Honors, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award, and the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, and was a finalist for the
National Book Award, and it appears almost in its entirety in <i>The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature</i> (2005).
<i>A Wreath for Emmett Till </i>(2005), <i>How I Discovered </i>Poetry (2014), and
<i>My Seneca Village </i>(2015) received similar acclaim. In 2017 she was awarded the NSK Neustadt Award and the NCTE Award for Excellence in Children’s Poetry. Nelson held the office of Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut from 2001-2006. At present she
is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and Poet-in-Residence of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">On the third Thursday of each month, The Poetry Institute Poetry Series celebrates an eclectic mix of poetic voices. Free. Refreshments.
(And participants are invited to bring something to share.) Open mic. Outstanding featured readers. In a casual setting. Open to all members of the public (and even others).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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