Meet and welcome the return of former First English Lutheran Church member and Hiram Johnson High school graduate, Dr. Marilyn Nelson. Dr. Nelson is an American poet, translator, and children's book author. She is professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut and the former poet laureate of Connecticut. Dr. Nelson is author or translator of more than 20 books and chapbooks for adults and children. Her critically acclaimed books for young adults include, among others, "A Wreath for Emmett Till," "Fortune’s Bones," "My Seneca Village," and the ground breaking "Carver: A Life in Poems," a Newbery Honor Book and recipient of the Boston Globe/Hornbook and the Flora Stieglitz Straus Awards. Her memoir How I Discovered Poetry, written in a series of 50 poems, is a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and was named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2014. Email stephanie@theCommunityWellnessForum.org for more information.