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Listen to Marilyn Nelson’s On Being conversation with Krista and Pádraig Ó Tuama, “‘So let us pick up the stones over which we stumble, friends, and build altars’” here: onbeing.org/programs/padraig-o-tuama-and-marilyn-nelson-so-let-us-pick-up-the-stones-over-which-we-stumble-friends-and-build-altars
She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of a school teacher and a U.S. serviceman, a member of the last graduating class of Tuskegee Airmen. She is the author or translator of more than 20 books and chapbooks for adults and children. A professor emerita of English at the University of Connecticut, she was Poet Laureate of Connecticut 2001-2006, and founding director of Soul Mountain Retreat, a writers’ colony, 2004-2010.
ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
An adventure in the mystery and the art of living
A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time
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Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more.
We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.
On Being with Krista Tippett: onbeing.org/series/podcast
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Listen to Marilyn Nelson’s On Being conversation with Krista and Pádraig Ó Tuama, “‘So let us pick up the stones over which we stumble, friends, and build altars’” here: onbeing.org/programs/padraig-o-tuama-and-marilyn-nelson-so-let-us-pick-up-the-stones-over-which-we-stumble-friends-and-build-altars
She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of a school teacher and a U.S. serviceman, a member of the last graduating class of Tuskegee Airmen. She is the author or translator of more than 20 books and chapbooks for adults and children. A professor emerita of English at the University of Connecticut, she was Poet Laureate of Connecticut 2001-2006, and founding director of Soul Mountain Retreat, a writers’ colony, 2004-2010.
ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
An adventure in the mystery and the art of living
A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time
THE PODCAST
Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more.
We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.
On Being with Krista Tippett: onbeing.org/series/podcast
STAY CONNECTED
Instagram: instagram.com/onbeing
Facebook: facebook.com/onbeing
The Pause Saturday email newsletter: onbeing.org/newsletter
#onbeing #kristatippett #poem #poetry #marilynnelson #living #reading #tenderness #children
