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 (https://marilyn-nelson.com/) or The Poetry Foundation (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/marilyn-nelson).
This poem is the title poem of an extraordinary book called How I Discovered Poetry (https://a.co/d/6xrZVm9)
It was originally published in The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems (https://a.co/d/0iajt2m)
Thank you to LSU Press for permission to read and discussion this poem on our podcast.
