Marilyn Nelson on Her Beautiful, Powerful Poetry
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Marilyn Nelson on Her Beautiful, Powerful Poetry
Marilyn Nelson is an American poet, translator and children’s book author. She’s a professor emeritus at The University of Connecticut and the former poet laureate of Connecticut. In this episode, Eric and Marilyn discuss several poems she’s written as well as the meaning behind them.
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In This Interview, Marilyn Nelson and I Discuss…
- Her book, How I Discovered Poetry
- Her poem, Mississippi
- Her book, A Wreath for Emmett Till
- The poetry form of a heroic crown of sonnets
- Her poem, Rosemary for Remembrance
- Her poem, Let Me Gather Spring Flowers For a Wreath
- Her poem, Like His Gouged Eye
- How poetry comes out of silence and leads us back to silence
- The value of silence in a life well lived
- Silence, contemplation, and self-knowledge
- Our quiet center
- Her book, Carver
- Her poem, Professor Carver’s Bible Class
- Her book, Snook Alone
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| 0:00.0 | Our lives are so filled up with noise now. |
| 0:03.8 | We have to take real effort to find a place that's quiet. |
| 0:17.2 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:19.3 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:23.9 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, |
| 0:28.3 | ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:33.7 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:38.4 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:41.3 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:44.8 | But it's not just about thinking. |
| 0:46.8 | Our actions matter. |
| 0:48.3 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
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