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SUMMARY:FIRST THURSDAY POETRY: MARILYN NELSON
DESCRIPTION:Marilyn Nelson, the 2012 recipient of the Robert Frost Med
 al, will read from her work on Thursday, August 2, at the Hygienic Ar
 t Galleries in New London.\nOn April, 26, 1946 Marilyn Nelson was bor
 n in Cleveland, Ohio, to Melvin M. Nelson, a U.S. serviceman in the Ai
 r Force, and Johnnie Mitchell Nelson, a teacher. Brought up first on o
 ne military base and then another, Nelson started writing while still 
 in elementary school.\nShe earned her BA from the University of Califo
 rnia, Davis, and holds postgraduate degrees from the University of Pen
 nsylvania (MA, 1970) and the University of Minnesota (PhD, 1979).\nHer
  books include The Cachoeira Tales, and Other Poems (Louisiana State
  University Press, 2005); The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poem
 s (1997), which was a finalist for the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry P
 rize, the 1997 National Book Award, and the PEN Winship Award; Magnif
 icat (1994);The Homeplace (1990), which won the 1992 Annisfield-Wolf
  Award and was a finalist for the 1991 National Book Award; Mama's Pr
 omises(1985); and For the Body (1978); all published by Louisiana St
 ate University Press.\nShe has also published collections of verse for
  children including:Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of the Greatest A
 ll-Girl Swing Band in the World (Dial Books, 2009); The Freedom Busi
 ness: Including A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a N
 ative of Africa(Front Street, 2008); The Cat Walked through the Casse
 role and Other Poems for Children (with Pamela Espeland, 1984) and Ha
 lfdan Rasmussen's Hundreds of Hens and Other Poems for Children (198
 2), which she translated from Danish with Pamela Espeland.\nHer honors
  include a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, two creative wr
 iting fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbrigh
 t Teaching Fellowship, and the 1990 Connecticut Arts Award. From 2001 
 - 2006, she served as the Poet Laureate of Connecticut. Since 1978 she
  has taught at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, where she is a p
 rofessor of English.\n\nFor more information visit http://hygienic.nin
 g.com/events/poetry-marilyn-nelson
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