DETROIT, Feb. 27, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Marygrove College hosts award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson for a reading and book signing on Friday, April 20, 2007, at 8 p.m. in the Madame Cadillac Building. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Marilyn Nelson is the 19th writer to present her works at the annual Bauder Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series. She is an acclaimed poet and author of adult and children's books of poetry.
Nelson is the author of thirteen books of poetry, six of which are written for children. Her work has received two Pushcart Prizes, two Coretta Scott King Book Awards, a Newbery Honor Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the 1998 Poets' Prize. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Nelson is professor emerita of English at the University of Connecticut and the former poet laureate of the state of Connecticut.
Her major volumes of poetry include Mama's Promises (1985), The Homeplace (1990), Magnificat (1994), The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems (1997), and The Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems (2005). Nelson's books of poetry for young people-among them Carver: A Life in Poems, and A Wreath for Emmett Till-have received high praise from critics and educators.
Yusef Komunyakaa has written, "Rooted in the basic soil of redemptive imagination, the voices in Marilyn Nelson's poems seek a lyrical foothold in our daily lives. Her words teach us how to praise ourselves by praising each other."
About Carver, Herman Sutter writes, "The poems are simple, sincere, and sometimes so beautiful that they seem not works of artifice, but honest statements of pure, natural truths."
For more information, please visit www.marygrove.edu or call 313-927-1383. For sponsorship information, contact Maureen Leonard at mleonard@marygrove.edu or 313-927-1308.
This year, Marygrove will celebrate the inauguration of its 8th president, Dr. David Fike. The Contemporary American Authors Series featuring Marilyn Nelson has been designated an Inaugural Event.
Marygrove College is a private liberal arts college located at 8425 W. McNichols Rd. in Detroit. More than 1,200 students attend classes in its undergraduate and graduate programs in education, business, human resource management, social justice, social work, science, theater, music, the fine arts and many others. Call 866-313-1927 or visit www.marygrove.edu.
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Editor's note: Marilyn Nelson's photograph is available at www.marygrove.edu/news.