National Book Award, for her poetry collections The Homeplace and The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems. Her honors include a Newbery Honor medal, two NEA creative writing fellowships, three honorary doctorates, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Nelson is a professor emerita of English at the University of Connecticut, founder and director of Soul Mountain Retreat, and the former poet laureate of the state of Connecticut.
In this interview, the poet Marilyn Nelson discusses the role of community in a writer’s life, especially the kind of community she aims to foster at Soul Mountain Retreat, a writers’ colony she founded.
In this interview, the poet Marilyn Nelson discusses the role of community in a writer’s life, especially the kind of community she aims to foster at Soul Mountain Retreat, a writers’ colony she founded.
