We are excited to welcome back Marion Palm, a long time participant in Ken Siegelman's Brooklyn Poetry Outreach.
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 performances were on December 26 at Cornelia Street Café, and January 5 at Tom Kane's Bookmark Bards in Bay Ridge. 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!
And while you are at Barnes & Noble, please buy books (and let your cashier know you came for Brooklyn Poetry Outreach)!
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