Marilyn Nelson

Marilyn Nelson is a poet, translator, educator, and author of books for adults and young readers. Her young adult works include A Wreath for Emmett Till, Fortune's Bones, My Seneca Village, and the Newbery Honor book Carver: A Life in Poems. She is a former poet laureate of Connecticut and professor emerita at the University of Connecticut.

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A Wreath for Emmett Till

2005 · Nonfiction

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3 editions: Print · 2005 | eBook · 2009 | eBook · 2005

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A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback. A Wreath for Emmett Till is "A moving elegy," says The Bulletin. In 1955 people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral held by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention. In a profound and chilling poem, award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement.

Print · 2005 · English

eBook · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · 2009 · English

eBook · HMH Books for Young Readers · 2005 · English

Podcasts & Discussion (7)

Poetry UnboundMarilyn Nelson — The Truceless Wars ↗2022-05-06The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & PurposeMarilyn Nelson on Her Beautiful and Powerful Poetry ↗2022-01-28On Being with Krista Tippett[Unedited] Pádraig Ó Tuama and Marilyn Nelson with Krista Tippett ↗2021-10-28On Being with Krista TippettPádraig Ó Tuama and Marilyn Nelson – “So let us pick up the stones over which we stumble, friends, and build altars” ↗2021-10-28On Being with Krista TippettMarilyn Nelson — Communal Pondering in a Noisy World ↗2020-07-30On Being with Krista Tippett[Unedited] Marilyn Nelson with Krista Tippett ↗2020-07-30The New Yorker: PoetryRadical Imagination: Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes on Poetry in Our Times ↗2020-07-24

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