Marilyn Nelson Communal Pondering in a Noisy World

Published: July 30, 2020, 6:20 p.m.

Marilyn Nelson is a storytelling poet who has taught poetry and contemplative practice to college students and West Point cadets. She brings a contemplative eye to ordinary goodness in the present and to complicated ancestries we\u2019re all reckoning with now. And she imparts a spacious perspective on what \u201ccommunal pondering\u201d might mean.