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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYp2B9p3wkE&mode=related&search=
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ayD5RNfRk
www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3560
Entretien avec Marilyn Nelson, Poète lauréate du Connecticut
http://www.canalu.tv/producteurs/vo_universite_toulouse_le_mirail/dossier_programmes/anglais/
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L'histoire Afro-Américaine à travers la poésie de Marilyn Nelson
http://www.canalu.tv/producteurs/vo_universite_toulouse_le_mirail/dossier_programmes/anglais/
l_histoire_afro_americaine_a_travers_la_poesie_de_marilyn_nelson

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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findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HST/is_2_7/ai_n12937385
korepress.blogspot.com/2006/11/room-of-ones-own.html

CONTROVERSY
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9184608
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
July 11 Marilyn will read for the University of Connecticut (Storrs) Center for Academic Programs

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

Pemba’s Song: A Ghost Story, Marilyn’s collaboration (10 of her sonnets, combined with Tonya’s prose) with Tonya
Hegamin, will be out from Scholastic in September.

September 26 Marilyn will read at Wheaton College, IL

The Freedom Business, poems by Marilyn Nelson, art by Deborah Dancy, will be out from WordSong
in October.

October 23 Marilyn will read at Waynesburg University, PA

October 26 – November 7 Marilyn will be a visiting writer at the Vermont Studio Center
www.vermontstudiocenter.org/Marilyn-Nelson-2008/

November 19 - Marilyn will attend the National Book Awards ceremony, as one of the judges on the Poetry panel.

December 4 - Marilyn will read for the Hartford, CT Shelter for Women

January 2 – 7 - Marilyn will be a guest at the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of
Southern Maine

January 15 – February 28 - Marilyn will be writing at the Lannan Foundation’s residency program in Marfa, TX

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