Marilyn Nelson

Poet

Millbrook, NY

New York US

Email:

miyako@blueflowerarts.com

Website:

marilyn-nelson.com

Author's Bio

Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of seventeen poetry books, among them 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 Award.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Poulin & Walters, ed. Contemporary American Poetry (Houghton Mifflin, 2005)

Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep (Little, Brown & Co., 1994)

In Search of Color Everywhere (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1994)

Books:

A Wreath for Emmett Till (Houghton Mifflin, 2005)

Fortunes Bones: The Manumission Requiem (Front Street Publications, 2005)

The Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2005)

Journals:

American Poetry Review

Kenyon Review

Southern Review

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

African American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Cleveland

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Last update: Aug 21, 2016