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American poet, and literary critic (born 1950)
Aldon Lynn Nielsen (born in 1950 in
Grand Island, Nebraska) is an American
poet, and literary critic.
Life
He was raised in the
District of Columbia, where he graduated from the
Federal City College and from the
George Washington University, with a Ph.D. He taught at
Howard University,
San Jose State University, the
University of California, Los Angeles and
Loyola Marymount University. He is the George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature in the
Pennsylvania State University.
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He lives in California with his wife, Anna Everett, an eemritus professor at
U.C. Santa Barbara. Nielsen loves to wear hats and owns several tablets.
Awards
- Larry Neal Award for poetry
- two Gertrude Stein Awards for innovation.
- SAMLA Studies Prize, a Myers Citation and the Kayden Award for best book in the humanities, for Reading Race
- Josephine Miles Award, for Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation
-
American Book Award for Don't deny my name: words and music and the black intellectual tradition
- Darwin Turner Award
Works
Poetry
Criticism
As editor
- Aldon Lynn Nielsen; Laura Vrana, eds. (2019). The Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas. Wesleyan.
- A Spell in the Pokey: The Selected Poems of Hugh Walthall. Selva Oscura. 2019.
Anthologies
References
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