'Writing - You, in a Partnership'
“Writingin form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with thetradition. In a way, it's not you alone, it's you in a partnership.” — MarilynNelson
Born in April of 1946, poet, translator and children's book writer Nelson is the author or translatorof 12 books and three chapbooks. Professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut, she isthe founder and director of Soul Mountain Retreat, a retreat center for new oremerging writers, especially poets.
Born in Cleveland, the daughter ofone of the original Tuskegee Airmen, she was brought upliving on military bases, and began writing while in elementary school. She said she gravitated to poetry and neverlooked back, although readers of her kids’ books say they’re glad she continued in that genre, too. Afterearning a Ph.D. in English, she taught at Connecticut for many years and ultimately washonored with a 5-year stint as Connecticut's Poet Laureate.
Nelson’s poetry collections includethe terrific The Homeplace, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Award and wasthe first of three of her books to be finalists for the National Book Award. In 2012, the Poetry Society of America awarded her the Frost Medal “fordistinguished lifetime service to American poetry,” and in 2013, she waselected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Soft spoken and thoughtful in allshe says and does, Nelson said a person’s voice is as important in presenting apoem as are the words on paper.
“Manyperformance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible,”she said. “They are wrong.”
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