Marion Palm | January 2016 Featured Poet

We are proud to present Brooklyn poet Marion Palm as our first featured poet for 2016.

Marion is a Brooklyn native born to Swedish immigrants. She was raised in a Swedish speaking home and integrates Swedish culture and language into her writing. She is best known as the founding director of Poets Under Glass, and has been a fixture on the NYC readings circuit since 1982. She was the first featured reader for Brooklyn Poetry Outreach at Barnes & Noble Booksellers.

Marion studied poetry writing formally at The Loft in Minneapolis, and at the Iowa Writers Conference before auditing Alan Ginsberg’s MFA classes at Brooklyn College. She has appeared on radio and television, on stage, in print and was most recently interviewed as a community advocate for the “New York Times”.

Marion has authored six poetry chapbooks, five non-fiction books, edited industry magazines and newsletters, and received a proclamation for “contributing to the cultural vitality of Brooklyn” from a former borough president. Marion’s book, Sunrise on Sunset Park, an inside out look at the Finnish Co-ops, has met surprising success with the real estate agent market and her book An Introduction to Poetry Writing, (exhibited at Cooper Hewitt, Bank Street and Parsons Colleges) -- a primer for giving poetry writing workshops with the primary purpose of improving communication between people -- was published by Thrivent Financial with a grant matched by St. Jacobi Lutheran Church. “The Lutheran”, a national magazine, will have a story in its February issue about Kairos Café, where she read for National Poetry Month last April. Marion’s most recent performance was on December 26 at Cornelia Street Café. She is presently a member of the Metro NY Synod Archive Committee, which oversees the Sutter Memorial Collection at Wagner College and is the poet in residence for St. Jacobi, a tri-lingual Lutheran church in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

Following Marion will be the open mic, so please put a poem in your pocket and come read with us, or just relax and enjoy some wonderful poetry! When: Tuesday, January 5, 2016

7:00-8:30 PM

Where: The BookMark Shoppe

8415 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11209 Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/GdsgwoGiaJ92
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