The long list of honors Nelson has received include the Annisfield-Wolf Award, the Poets’ Prize, the PEN Winship Award, the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Frost Medal, the Poetry Society of America’s award for “distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry,” and fellowships from Fulbright, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is also the author of the memoir How I Discovered Poetry and the biography Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor’s Life. Among these are numerous critically acclaimed books, including A Wreath for Emmett Till, a Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book The Fields Of Praise: New And Selected Poems, which won the 1998 Poets’ Prize Carver: A Life In Poems, which won the 2001 Boston Globe/Hornbook Award and the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award and Fortune’s Bones, which was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and won the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry. Earlier in the day, she will meet with creative writing students.Ī three-time finalist for the National Book Award, Nelson is the author or translator of more than 20 books and chapbooks for adults and children. Please note that organizers have asked that all attendees wear masks for this event. in Viking Theater that is open to the community. Nelson will give a poetry reading at 7 p.m. Olaf College English Department will welcome nationally acclaimed poet, author, and educator Marilyn Nelson to campus April 28 as part of the Claire Gilbert Marty Visiting Writers Series.
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