Marilyn Nelson — Communal Pondering in a Noisy World
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Mamma's Promises
christa tippet: I'm with the story telling poet marylyn nilson. She came up for early tenure in an almost exclusively white male english department when her son was about fifteen months old. "I spent several years writing poems at three a m because i had to do class preparations first," she says. Meanwhile, my mother was disappearing into alheimer's disease....
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