Marilyn Nelson is an American poet born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1946. She has written numerous books for children and worked as a translator. She has been featured three times on the finalist list for the National Book Award. She was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2013.
‘The Ballad of Aunt Geneva’ by Marilyn Nelson is about a Black woman’s life, relationships, and work. It is based on local rumors and assumptions about her character.
Geneva was a wild one
Geneva was a tart.
Geneva met a blue-eyed boy
And gave away her heart.
‘Star-Fix’ by Marilyn Nelson is a poem that lionizes the noble role of the navigator onboard an aircraft.
At his cramped desk under the astrodome, the navigator looks
thousands of light-years everywhere but down. He gets a celestial fix,
measuring head-winds; checking the log; plotting wind-speed,
altitude, drift in a circle of protractors, slide-rules, and pencils.
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