Around the Web
Lisa Sewell, “Marilyn Nelson.” Twenty-First-Century American Poets, Third Series, edited by John Cusatis, Gale, 2017. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 380.
Spotlight on NCTE Poets: Marilyn Nelson, with Lee Bennett Hopkins No Water River
How I Discovered Young Adult Poetry – The Zena Sutherland Lecture The Horn Book
Review: How I Discovered Poetry Publishers Weekly
Jan Gardner | How I Discovered Poetry The Boston Globe
Translating Inge Pederson VCU’s Blackbird
The Cortland Review: Issue Nine Poem: ‘Ruellia Noctiflora’
National Public Radio ‘Emmett Till’: A Poem of Sorrow, and Hope
Videos
Wisconsin Book Festival “A Wreath for Emmett Till”
Marilyn Nelson Webcast (Library of Congress)
Audio
Wisconsin Book Festival “A Wreath for Emmett Till”
Marilyn Nelson Webcast (Library of Congress)
Poetry Off the Shelf : The Poetry Foundation
Poetry Radio Project : The Poetry Foundation Tuskegee Airmen
Poetry Foundation Podcast April 18, 2006
Interviews
On Being, Communal Pondering in a Noisy World, Krista Tippett interview
National Book Foundation Archives Interview
Cooperative Children’s Book Center “A Poet for All” interview by Andrea Schmitz
TeachingBooks.net Andrea Davis Pinkney interview
School Library Journal iInterview by Daryl Grabarek
Teaching & Teacher’s Guides
Choose to Read Ohio (CTRO): American Ace toolkit for book discussion groups or library programs
Teacher’s Guide for A Wreath for Emmett Till
Essential Learning Products Marilyn Nelson: Poetic Justice, by Katherine Pierpont
Soul Mountain Retreat
Quiet Time – by Jane Gordon, NYTimes.com
Persephone Speaks: A Room of One’s Own – Sandra Lim
Contemplative Life
The Fruit of Silence – by Marilyn Nelson (PDF)
The World Community for Christian Meditation
The Rule of Saint Benedict by Abbot Primate Jerome Theisen, OSB
Maranatha: A Christian Meditation Mantra – by Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati