315 || The Power of Poetry

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Listen in this week as Annie is joined by special guest and author Andre' Hadley Marria (The Songs I Could Not Sing) to discuss all things poetry. The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf: The Songs I Could Not Sing by Andre’ Hadley Marria Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Prophet by Kalil Gibran (including poem On Children) The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman Little Women by Louisa May Alcott We Speak Your Names by Pearl Cleage Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You In the Morning by Alice Walker Some of Andre’s other favorite poets: William Wordsworth Gwendolyn Brooks Langston Hughes Walter Wintle Edgar Guest (Sermons We See ) From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. This week, Annie is reading Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson. If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

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0:00.0	Welcome to From the Front porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South.
0:10.0	Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true, that even as we grieved, we grew.
0:32.0	Amanda Gorman from Harcorn, The Hill We Climb.
0:40.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia,
0:46.0	and today I'm joined by my friend, Andre Hadley Mariah.
0:50.0	Andre and I met several years ago while serving on our count's one book committee,
0:54.0	and now Andre, a native Thomas billion community leader, licensed professional counselor,
1:00.0	and Rotarian, can add one more title to her list, author.
1:04.0	Andre's new collection of poetry, the songs I could not sing, released a couple of weeks ago,
1:10.0	and since April is National Poetry Month, I wanted to talk with Andre not only about her book and her writing process,
1:17.0	but about the beautiful and lasting power of poetry.
1:21.0	Welcome, Andre.
1:22.0	Thank you.
1:23.0	I'm so glad you're here today.
1:25.0	Thank you.
1:26.0	Okay, so first I wanted us, before we kind of talk about your book specifically,
1:31.0	I wanted to talk about poetry, and I wanted to talk about your favorite poets,
1:36.0	because your book is kind of this beautiful collection of a wide range of poetry.
1:41.0	You cover a lot of territory.
1:44.0	And we're going to talk about that, but I want to know kind of who inspires you.
1:48.0	So who are your favorite poets over the course of your life?
1:51.0	Has there been a poem or have there been poems that have really touched you,
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