Poets Marilyn Nelson & Cornelius Eady @ Big Apple BAP: NYC's Best American Poetry Poets

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Poets Marilyn Nelson and @The Inspired Word's Big Apple BAP: NYC's Best American Poetry Poets, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011, @ One and One Bar/Restaurant, Nexus Lounge, Manhattan, NYC.

Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of twelve books, three chapbooks, and has appeared three times in The Best American Poetry - 2003, 2006, and 2007. Her books have won many awards and honors. Her most recent book, Snook Alone (Candlewick, 2010), is an allegory masquerading as a picture book, lavishly illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering. Nelson is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut; founder and former director of Soul Mountain Retreat, a small writers' colony; and former (2001 - 2006) Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut.

Poet/Playwright Cornelius Eady is the author of several poetry collections: Kartunes; Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize; The Gathering of My Name, nominated for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; You Don't Miss Your Water; The Autobiography of a Jukebox; Brutal Imagination; and most recently, Hardheaded Weather (Putnam, 2008). His awards include Fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Traveling Scholarship, and The Prairie Schooner Strousse Award. His work appears in many journals, magazines, and the anthologies Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep, In Search of Color Everywhere, and The Vintage Anthology of African American Poetry, (1750-2000). He is co-founder of Cave Canem, and is currently The Miller Family Endowed Chair in Literature and Writing and Professor in English at The University of Missouri-Columbia. He appeared in The Best American Poetry 2008.

The Big Apple BAP: NYC's Best American Poetry Poets is a night celebrating New York City's finest poets, whose poems over the years have been honored with inclusion in the highly respected annual anthology, The Best American Poetry. http://www.bestamericanpoetry.com/

Hosted by The Best American Poetry's founding editor, David Lehman, this night's lineup included a dazzling array of accomplished poets: Truck Darling, Matthea Harvey, Julie Sheehan, Kimiko Hahn, Marilyn Nelson, Marc Jaffee, Anna Ziegler, Jason Schneiderman, Cornelius Eady, Timothy Liu, and Gregory Pardlo.

Founded by award-winning journalist and former Village Voice columnist Mike Geffner, The Inspired Word is one of the hottest poetry/spoken word series in the country, happening every Tuesday and Thursday night in Manhattan's East Village.

Venue: One and One Bar/Restaurant (downstairs Nexus Lounge)
76 East 1st Street (corner of 1st Avenue)
Manhattan, New York City

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