Episode 69: Live with Marilyn Nelson!
Our first live performance of the podcast, featuring Marilyn Nelson and a discussion or her amazing poem "How I Discovered Poetry."
On January 31, we met at Calvin University for its January Series and spoke with Marilyn Nelson about poetry and her work for a live audience.
For more on Marilyn Nelson, visit her website or The Poetry Foundation.
This poem is the title poem of an extraordinary book called How I Discovered Poetry
It was originally published in The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems
Thank you to LSU Press for permission to read and discussion this poem on our podcast.