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Frost Farm’s Hyla Brook Reading Series
Features Award-winning Poet Marilyn
Nelson
Winner of Newbery Honors, Coretta
Scott King Honors, Finalist for National Book Award
DERRY, NH, July
31, 2018 – The Robert Frost Farm’s Hyla
Brook Reading Series features award-winning poet Marilyn
Nelson, along with Hyla Brook Poet Midge Goldberg, on Thursday,
August 9, 2018, 6:30-8:30pm.
The series, held
at the Frost Farm located at 122 Rockingham Rd (Rt 28), is free and open to the
public. An Open Mic follows the readings and all audience members are invited
to share their work.
Marilyn Nelson is the author or
translator of some twenty books of poetry. Her Carver: A Life in
Poems (2001), described as “ground-breaking” in several Children’s
Literature textbooks, won Newbery Honors, Coretta Scott King Honors, the Boston
Globe/Horn Book Award, and the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, and was a finalist
for the National Book Award, and it appears almost in its entirety in The
Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature (2005). A Wreath for
Emmett Till (2005), How I Discovered Poetry (2014),
and My Seneca Village (2015) received similar acclaim. In 2017
she was awarded the NSK Neustadt Award and the NCTE Award for Excellence in
Children’s Poetry. Nelson held the office of Poet Laureate of the State of
Connecticut from 2001-2006. At present she is a Chancellor of the Academy of
American Poets and Poet-in-Residence of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Also, appearing is Hyla Brook Poet and
Chester resident Midge Goldberg. Goldberg is the recipient of the
2016 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award as well as being a finalist in
2017 and 2015. She received the Richard Wilbur Poetry Award for her
book Snowman’s Code, chosen as the 2016 New Hampshire Literary
Awards Reader’s Choice Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry. Her poems have
appeared in many journals and anthologies, such as Measure,
Appalachia, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Poetry
Speaks: Who I Am, and as a featured poet in Mezzo Cammin and Light.
Her other books include Flume Ride and the children’s
book My Best Ever Grandpa. She is a longtime member of the Powow
River Poets and has an M.F.A. from the University of New Hampshire.
The 2018 Hyla
Brook Reading Series season concludes on Sept. 13 with a reading by poet and
fiddler Dudley Laufman.
Through
September, the Hyla Brook Poets’ monthly writing workshop meets on the third
Saturday of the month at 10am at its summer home at the Frost Farm, before
moving to the Derry Public Library.
For further
information, email hylabrookpoets@gmail.com,
or visit www.frostfarmpoetry.org or facebook.com/HylaBrookPoets or twitter.com/HylaBrookPoets.
About Frost Farm Poetry
Under the leadership of
Robert W. Crawford, Derry Poet Laureate, Frost Farm Poetry’s mission is to
support the writing and teaching of metrical poetry. The Hyla Brook Poets started in 2008
as a monthly poetry workshop. In March 2009, the monthly Hyla Brook Reading
Series launched with readings by emerging poets as well as luminaries such as
Maxine Kumin, Sharon Olds and Richard Blanco. From there, the Frost Farm Poetry
Prize for metrical poetry was introduced in 2010, with the Frost Farm
Conference beginning in 2015.
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