A collection of poems celebrating several generations of a Southern Black family which includes s...

Soaring images, rhythmic language, and wry humor come together in these three narrative poems tha...

In The Fields of Praise, Marilyn Nelson claims as subjects the life of the spirit, the vicissitud...

Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores ...

Two sheep-herding women invite you to laugh, cry, and contemplate as they relate stories of tendi...

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Brown v. Board...

Johnnie wants to celebrate her Papa's birthday, but Papa doesn't know exactly when that special d...

Erstverkaufstag: 09.12.2026

Powerful, beautiful, and often deceptively simple, the poetry of Marilyn Nelson takes a polyphoni...