Join us for very special evening as renowned poet and multiple time Connecticut poet laureate, Marilyn Nelson, reads selections of her award-winning poetry.
There will be a Q & A and Book Signing following the reading.
Register for this event HERE.
- “Nelson’s writing is rich in story, philosophy/theology, cend language. She moves comfortably from low to high diction and back again….Reading her work is as much a lesson in history and in human nature as it is a lesson in poetry.” —Joyce S. Brown
- “Nelson’s bold and sure poems long for heaven and-happily for us-continue a lifelong affair with the occasions of earth.” —Mark Doty
- “Her words teach us how to praise ourselves by praising each other.” —Yusef Komunyakaa
Marilyn Nelson, a three-time finalist for the National Book Award, is one of America’s most celebrated poets.
She is the author or translator of 17 poetry books for adults and children, five chapbooks, and in 2014 she published a memoir, named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2014, entitled How I Discovered Poetry—a series of 50 poems about growing up in the 1950’s in a military family, each poem stamped with a place and date from the many places they lived. To learn more about Marilyn and her work, please visit her website.
Elm Street Books will be selling a selection of Marilyn’s books at this event.
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— an announcement from New Canaan Library (Image of Marilyn Nelson from the library website)