[New-Poetry] Fired Over Poem About Emmitt Till

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Fired Over Poem About Emmitt Till
April 20, 2007 
 
But not all students are as lucky to have school administrators who  
understand the role of poetry as many of their teachers do. Sadly, that seems to  be 
the case at the Celerity Nascent Charter School in Los Angeles.
 
Celerity Nascent is at the center of a disturbing controversy surrounding  
former Connecticut Poet Laureate Marilyn Nelson's "A Wreath for Emmett Till."  
This book-length poem, which has won the Coretta Scott King, the Boston  
Globe-Horn Book and the Printz Honor awards, sparked the firing of two teachers  by 
the administration of Celerity Nascent.
 
Marisol Alba's seventh-grade students had prepared to read a sonnet from  the 
book and lay a wreath for Emmett Till during a schoolwide program for  
African American History Month. 





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