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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/article/marilyn-nelson-poetry-reading">JOIN US for a poetry reading by Marilyn Nelson</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Thursday, October 24, 4:00 PM<br>
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street<br>
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series<br>
Contact: <a href="mailto:nancy.kuhl@yale.edu">nancy.kuhl@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a href="http://marilyn-nelson.com/"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue">Marilyn Nelson</span></strong></a> is the author or translator of more than twenty collections of poetry for adults and children. In 1992 Nelson’s book
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Homeplace</span></em> won the Annisfield-Wolf Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Fields Of Praise: New And Selected Poems</span></em> won the 1998 Poets’ Prize and was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Award, the PEN Winship Award, and the Lenore Marshall Prize. Her young adult
book, <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">A Wreath For Emmett Till</span></em>, 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. She has been awarded two NEA creative writing fellowships, the 2019 Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the 1990 Connecticut Arts Award, a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, a fellowship from the J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,
and the Poetry Society of America’s Frost Medal for “distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry.” A more complete list of Nelson’s achievements can be found online here:
<a href="https://blueflowerarts.com/artist/marilyn-nelson/">Marilyn Nelson biography</a>. Examples of Nelson’s work can be found online at the
<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/marilyn-nelson">Poetry Foundation</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Nelson will be introduced by <a href="https://english.yale.edu/people/student/kassidi-jones">
Kassidi Jones</a>, a Yale University graduate student studying African American women’s poetry.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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">
<span style="color:#0563C1">nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be posted.
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: Poetry at Beinecke Library:
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