Writers series hosts poet Marilyn Nelson
February 9, 2016
Author Marilyn Nelson will read from her work at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12, as part of
the Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Nelson will read in the Schaible Auditorium on the Fairbanks campus. The reading is
free and open to the public.
Nelson will also deliver a craft talk at 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12, in Gruening 408. It is open to the public and geared specifically toward writers.
Nelson is a three-time finalist for the National Book Award and is one of America’s
most celebrated poets. She is the author or translator of 17 poetry books. Her memoir,
"How I Discovered Poetry," was named one of National Public Radio’s best books of
2014.
Of her many collections, "The Home-place" won the 1992 Annisfield-Wolf Award, "The
Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems" won the 1998 Poets’ Prize and "Carver: A
Life in Poems" and "A Wreath for Emmett Till" won the Boston Globe Horn Book Award
in 2001 and 2005 respectively. Nelson’s honors include two National Endowment for
the Arts creative writing fellowships, a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation
and the Frost Medal, which is the Poetry Society of America’s most prestigious award
for a “distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry."
The Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by the UAF Department of English,
part of the College of Liberal Arts, which is the largest of UAF’s academic units
and includes arts, humanities, social sciences and language disciplines across 20
departments.
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