What Are You Reading?

Tim and Ian left the bookstore and ventured out to Urban Grind in West Midtown to hear local poets perform before a live audience. In this episode, we learn what drives them to open mics, how they hope people will connect with their work, and what slam poetry is all about. Warning - NSFW!

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Amena Brown
Urban Grind
Ashlee Haze
Poetry Slam, Inc.
SlamATL

David and George pastor churches at points of racial tension. In our most NSFW episode yet, we talk with them about Jesus, prophets, powers, principalities, and good books. At the end, George urges you to send us money.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED
Darktown by Thomas Mullen
Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus by Ched Myers

 

Novelist and publisher Steve McCondichie's hometown of Newnan, Georgia made national headlines when a Nazi group held a rally there and Antifa arrived to counter-protest. Steve tells us how the town responded, and we talk about the importance of honest stories about the South.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED:
Be Here Now by Ram Dass
Let No One Get Hurt by Jon Pineda
The Code of the Extraordinary Mind by Vishen Lakhiani

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Southern Fried Karma
SFK Press
New Southern Fugitives

Gary and Vivian Chapman capture hope and dignity in difficult places around the world through photography and storytelling. They talk with us about what drives them, listening to audiobooks, and the weird thing Gary looks for in bookstores around the world.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED:
Behind the Beautiful Forever: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof
Iberia by James A. Michener
Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson
Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon

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GarySChapman.com

Kaitlin B. Curtice was a Southern Baptist when she began to recognize and connect with her Potawatomi heritage. We talk with her about the writers who have helped her navigate her complex identity and what led her to write her new book, Glory Happening.

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BOOKS/AUTHORS DISCUSSED:
Barbara Brown Taylor
Brennan Manning
Thomas Merton
Richard Rohr
Brian McLaren
Randy Woodley
"Neither Wolf Nor Dog" by Kent Nerburn

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KaitlinCurtice.com
@KaitlinCurtice

In one of our favorite episodes to date, rapper, writer, and community organizer Sho Baraka talks with us about hope, activism, faith and partisan politics.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED:
Going Down Jericho Road by Michael Honey
The Beloved Community by Charles Marsh

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Sho Baraka
The AND Campaign

Kalin Thomas is the Program Director at The Wren's Nest. She talks with us about preserving folklore and equipping a new generation to tell their stories.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED:
The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin
Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change by Pema Chödrön
The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness by Jim Auchmutey
A Place at the Table by Susan Rebecca White
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America by Lerone Bennett Jr.

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The Wren's Nest
Soul of America

Tim and Ian recap their 2017 in books and talk about what's next for the podcast. Along the way, we discuss reading authors who aren't dead white men, political novels, and Jesus.

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Author Amena Brown takes us on a tour of Atlanta's poetry scene, tells us about the vulnerability of writing her new book, "How to Fix a Broken Record," and agrees with us that it's a good thing to cry sometimes.

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BOOKS/AUTHORS DISCUSSED:
Anne Lamott
When The Heart Waits by Sue Monk Kidd
Collin Kelley
Glory Happening by Kaitlin Curtice
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
The Dream of You by Jo Saxton
I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove by Ahmir Questlove Thompson
Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation by Ahmir Questlove Thompson
something to food about: Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs by Ahmir Questlove Thompson

MUSIC DISCUSSED:
Robert Glasper
Erykah Badu
Anthony David
Algebra
A Seat At The Table - Solange
noname
Kamasi Washington
Light of the Sun - Jill Scott
Thundercat


POETRY IN ATLANTA:
Java Monkey
Red Light Cafe - Art Amok Slam
Apache Cafe 
Urban Grind