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POET MARILYN NELSON TO RECEIVE THE GOLDEN ROSE
FROM THE NEW ENGLAND POETRY CLUB
POET MARILYN NELSON TO
RECEIVE THE GOLDEN ROSE
FROM THE NEW ENGLAND
POETRY CLUB
3 PM, Sunday, August
13th
Longfellow
House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic
Site
105 Brattle Street,
Cambridge
Celebration will
include a poetry reading and reception
The event is free and
open to the public
CAMBRIDGE, MA. – The New England
Poetry Club is pleased to announce the selection of American poet
Marilyn Nelson as this year’s recipient of the Golden Rose
Award in recognition of her wide-ranging contributions to American
poetry and her inspirational teaching. The public is invited to join
the celebration of Marilyn Nelson and to hear her read her work on
August 13th at 3 pm at the Longfellow House-Washington’s
Headquarters National Historic Site, 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge.
Marilyn Nelson is the author or
translator of over twenty-four books, including collections for
children and young adults. Her work uses storytelling and lyricism to
probe the complexity of history, especially the history of racism and
slavery in America, and to give voice to praise, wonder, grief, and
contemplation. Along with the Golden Rose, Nelson's honors include
the PEN Book Award, the Lenore Marshall Award, the Poetry Society of
America's Frost Medal and others. Nelson is a professor emerita of
English at the University of Connecticut and the founder of Soul
Mountain Retreat, a writing retreat to support the work of
African-American poets. In 2009 she was a faculty member of U-Mass
Boston's Writer's Workshop at the Joiner Center.
The Golden Rose, one of
America’s oldest literary prizes, is an annual award, inaugurated
in 1919, to honor a poet whose work and encouragement of other
writers has made a significant mark on American poetry. Winners have
included Adrienne Rich, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Naomi Shihab
Nye, and Fanny Howe who was honored in 2016.
The New
England Poetry Club is a poets’ association founded in 1915 by
Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, and Conrad Aiken to foster the art of
poetic expression. The NEPC runs the oldest poetry reading series in
the country and offers an ongoing writing workshop open to all
members. Members of New England Poetry Club are poets, publishers,
and readers and translators of poetry, who live in New England or
have strong ties to the region. Membership is open to all writers and
readers of poetry. (http://www.nepoetryclub.org).
Contact: Mary Buchinger, President NEPC
Contact: Mary Buchinger, President NEPC
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE mbuchingerbodwell@gmail.com
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