Connecticut’s former Poet Laureate Marilyn Nelson to read and discuss her work Oct. 29 at Quinnipiac University

Marilyn Nelson, Connecticut’s poet laureate from 2001-2006, will read from her work during an open dialogue
on creativity and the arts at 2 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29, in the Carl Hansen Student Center, Room 120, on Quinnipiac University’s Mount Carmel Campus.

This event, sponsored by the Quinnipiac Bookstore and the English Department in the College of Arts and Sciences at Quinnipiac, is free and open to the public.

Of her work, Poet Mark Doty writes, “Nelson’s bold and sure poems long for heaven and—happily for us—continue a lifelong affair with the occasions of earth.”

Among Nelson’s books are: “The Homeplace;” “The Fields of Praise, Carver;” “Fortune's Bones;” “Miss Crandall’s
School,” which she wrote with Elizabeth Alexander; “The Freedom Business;” “Sweethearts of Rhythm;” and “A Wreath for Emmett Till.”

Nelson’s honors include two National Education Association creative writing fellowships, the 1990 Connecticut Arts Award, a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, a fellowship from the J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Frost Medal, the Poetry Society of America's most prestigious award, for a "distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry."

Nelson’s reading is part of the annual poetry tour of the Connecticut Poetry Circuit, which also sponsors readings
by Connecticut student poets each spring.

For more information, call 203-582-8652.

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