Marilyn Nelson

 
Poet Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of twelve books and three chapbooks. Her book The Homeplace won the 1992 Annisfield-Wolf Award and was a finalist for the 1991 National Book Award. The Fields Of Praise: New And Selected Poems won the 1998 Poets' Prize and was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Award, the PEN Winship Award, and the Lenore Marshall Prize. Carver: A Life In Poems 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. Fortune's Bones was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and won the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry. A Wreath For Emmett Till 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. The Cachoeira Tales And Other Poems won the L.E. Phillabaum Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. 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, three honorary doctorates, and a fellowship from the J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Nelson is a professor emerita of English at the University of Connecticut; founder and director of Soul Mountain Retreat, a small writers' colony; and the former (2001—2006) Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut.

BIOS
www.blueflowerarts.com/mnelson.html
www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/97
www.boydsmillspress.com/contributors/contributors/nelson_marilyn.html

INTERVIEWS
www.nationalbook.org/authorsguide_mnelson.html
www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/authors/experts/nelson.asp
www.teachingbooks.net/content/Nelson_qu.pdf
www.teachingk-8.com/

TEACHERS’ GUIDES
www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/readers_guides/nelson_wreath.shtml

VIDEOS
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ayD5RNfRk
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AUDIO FILES
www.pluggd.tv/audio/channels/thelumberyardjournals_podcast/episodes/26g2b
www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v4n1/previous.htm
www.cortlandreview.com/issue/9/nelson9.htm
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4818586
www.flogris.org/exhibitions/2006/06VenturePoems.html
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9184608
www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/PoetryFoundation.orgPodcast.04.18.06.mp3

SOUL MOUNTAIN RETREAT
www.soulmountainretreat.com
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korepress.blogspot.com/2006/11/room-of-ones-own.html

CONTROVERSY
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blogs.edweek.org/teachers/webwatch/2007/03/poetic_justice.html
cooljustice.blogspot.com/2007/03/firing-teachers-who-encourage-students.html

CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE
www.contemplativemind.org/programs/academic/nelson-fruit-of-silence.pdf
(last updated ca. 2003) www.sp.uconn.edu/~mnelson/
www.tricycle.com/issues/tricycle/11_2/feature/840-1.html
www.wccm.org/
www.osb.org/gen/rule.html
www.swamij.com/maranatha.htm
www.upanishad.org/wccm/arche.htm

EVENTS
March 14 -15 Marilyn will be reading at the Illinois Reading Council Conference, Springfield, IL

March 24, 7:30 pm Marilyn will be reading in the Reading Between A & B series
11th Street Bar
510 E. 11th Street
(Between Avenues A & B)
Manhattan, NYC.
www.readab.com/

Marilyn will read and speak at the Middle Passage: Conversations on Black Religions in the African Diaspora Conference,
Yale Divinity School
www.yale.edu/divinity/middlepassage/index.shtml

April 10 Marilyn will read at Manchester Community College, CT
www.mcc.commnet.edu/

April 28 Marilyn will be a Judge in the Poetry Out Loud 2008 Finals, Washington, DC
www.nea.gov/news/news07/POLfinals2007.html

May 3 Marilyn will gratefully accept donations at the Soul Mountain Retreat Fund Raiser
www.soulmountainretreat.com

May 9 – 10 Marilyn will read at Ohioana Library celebration, Columbus, OH
www.ohioana.org/about/

May 16 – 17 Marilyn will receive an honorary degree from Simmons College, Boston, MA

July 18 – 20 Woo-hoo! Marilyn will attend the Story/Atwood family Reunion, Chicago, IL

July 20 – 26 Marilyn will teach a workshop at American University,
Washington, DC, for the Hurston/Wright Foundation
www.hurston-wright.org/hw_writers_week.shtml

October 22 Marilyn will read at Waynesburg University, PA

October 31 – November 5 Marilyn will be a visiting writer at the Vermont Studio Center
www.vermontstudiocenter.org/Marilyn-Nelson-2008/

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