Marilyn Nelson to Read at BMC
Marilyn Nelson
Thursday, Oct. 29
7:30 p.m., Ely Room, Wyndham
Poet, translator, and three-time National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson is the author of twelve books, including The Homeplace, The Fields Of Praise: New And Selected Poems, Carver: A Life In Poems (a Newbery Honor Book), Fortune’s Bones, A Wreath For Emmett Till, and The Cachoiera Tales And Other Poems (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award).
Poet Joyce S. Brown writes, “She is moral, loving, visionary … Reading her work is as much a lesson in history and in human nature as it is a lesson in poetry.”
This reading is made possible by the Jane Flanders Fund and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry.
