Marilyn Nelson

May 6, 2024 | hbook.com | Peter Reynolds |Marilyn Nelson

Illustration (c) 2024 by Peter H. Reynolds. From the May/June 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Our Centennial. For more Horn Book centennial coverage, click here. Find more in the "Blowing the Horn" series here. Single copies of this special issue are available for $15.00 including postage and may be ordered from:Horn Book Magazine Customer [email protected] subscription information is here.

May 5, 2024 | hbook.com | Marilyn Nelson |Noah Van Sciver |Marlena Myles

From the May/June 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Our Centennial. For more Horn Book centennial coverage, click here. Find more in the "Blowing the Horn" series here. Single copies of this special issue are available for $15.00 including postage and may be ordered from:Horn Book Magazine Customer [email protected] subscription information is here.

Apr 2, 2024 | hbook.com | Shoshana Flax |Marilyn Nelson |Noah Van Sciver |Marlena Myles

It’s not just for nurseries. It’s not just for rhymes. It’s stories. It’s feelings. It’s wonders and crimes. Poetry’s for you. You read it. You hear it. You rap or you slam. So be into meter (as iamb, iamb!)—jump into the bounce that a pattern contains—or throw out the structure if structure constrains. The point of a poem is not to cause pains!It’s to speak. To express. To a page. To a crowd. “Can it be about—”Anything. Yup. That’s allowed.

Jun 2, 2023 | hometownfocus.us | Marilyn Nelson

As a member of the P.E.O. Sisterhood in Ely, I would like to share with you information about the P.E.O. (Philanthropic Educational Organization) and how the organization, including several local chapters, helps women reach for the stars. Since the Ely chapter’s inception in 1995, we have assisted area women in garnering more than $125,000 in grants, scholarships and loans.

Apr 26, 2023 | diverseverse.com | Marilyn Nelson |Martin Espada

Marilyn Nelson reads “Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100” by Martin Espada. Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100by Martín Espadafor the 43 members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local l00, working at the Windows on the World restaurant, who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade CenterAlabanza. Praise the cook with a shaven headand a tattoo on his shoulder that said Oye,a blue-eyed Puerto Rican with people from Fajardo,the harbor of pirates centuries ago.