Marion Palm, Swedish-American poet will be the first featured reader for Ken Siegelman's Brooklyn Poetry Outreach, a collaboration between the Borough President's office and Barnes & Noble Booksellers Retail store in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Marion Palm is the founding director of Poets Under Glass incorporated in 1987 and is the author of six chapbooks and five non-fiction books. She has been a frequent feature reader on the NYC readings circuit since 1982, and has been interviewed on radio and television. Marion is bi-lingual in Swedish and studied Swedish as an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota. She has also lived in Sweden.

Marion's first chapbook was introduced by Norman Rosten, first poet laureate of Brooklyn who praised her work for it's musicality and fluidity. She has books and poems archived in libraries and museums and has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, the most recent from Thrivent Financial for An Introduction to Poetry Writing, a poetry writing guidebook available from Dog Ear Publications. Her book Sunrise on Sunset Park, an inside out look at the Finnish co-ops of Sunset Park, available from Xlibris.com is a surprise hit with realtors, who use the book to help sell the famous Finnish co-ops of Sunset Park and to educate newcomers about American history that happened in Brooklyn. Marion is most proud of the interview she gave to the National Museum of Immigration and Naturalization sharing information about how her father, then 15 years old, was a member of the crew that brought her paternal grandmother to America. (He also brought her paternal grandmother and grandfather back to Sweden.)

Her memoir Alice's American Dream is archived in the Sutter Memorial Collection at Wagner College, along with Bread of Heaven, a book about how her father married Alice in Sweden and brought her to America as his bride.