POET MARILYN NELSON TO RECEIVE THE GOLDEN ROSE FROM THE NEW ENGLAND POETRY CLUB

Marilyn Nelson

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 13^th

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 13^th 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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE mbuchingerbodwell@gmail.com