In this episode we speak with the lauded writer, educator and MC Nate Marshall, whose latest poetry collection Finna was named one of NPR’s best books of 2020. We discuss poetry’s early-2000s pop culture heyday, its evolving cultural voice and our first introductions to the oft-intimidating, wonder-evoking art form.
The Stacks Book Club selection for April is Doppelgangbanger by Cortney Lamar Charleston. We will discuss the book on April 27th with Nate Marshall.
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Books
- Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall
- Finna by Nate Marshall
- Wonder by R. J. Palacio
- Amanda Gorman
- Eve Ewing
- William Wordsworth
- Robert Frost
- William Shakespeare
- Clint Smith
- Hanif Abdurraqib
- Reginald Dwayne Betts
- R. Eric Thomas
- Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler
- The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
- We Live in Water by Jess Walter
- Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Simpson
- Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Lot by Bryan Washington
- Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
- Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
- The World Doesn’t Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- bell hooks
- American Journal by Robert Hayden
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- South to America by Imani Perry
- Prophets of the Hood by Imani Perry
- May We Forever Stand by Imani Perry
- Looking for Lorraine by Imani Perry
- Jamila Minnicks Gleason
- Read Until You Understand by Farah Jasmine Griffin
- A Mercy by Toni Morrison
- Phillis Wheatley
- Jeff Chang
- Doppelgangbanger by Cortney Lamar Charleston
- Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton
- How to Carry Water by Lucille Clifton
- On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Audiobook)
- Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- Roots by Alex Haley
- Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling (Audiobook)
- Jim Dale
- The Fugitive Poets by William Pratt
- e. e. cummings
- Ezra Pound
- Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
- Frank Marshall Davis
- Never A City So Real by Alex Kotlowitz
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- Citizen Illegal by Jose Olivarez
- A Street in Bronzeville by Gwendolyn Brooks
- The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
- Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss
Everything Else
- Colorado College
- Colorado Springs, CO
- Denver, CO
- Focus on the Family
- Young Life
- The US Olympic & Paralympic Committee
- Cortez, CO
- Durango, CO
- Michael Franti
- Def Poetry Jam (HBO)
- Youth Speaks
- First Wave Scholarship Program
- Kanye West – Bittersweet on Def Poetry Jam
- Beau Sia
- Rafael Casal
- Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996)
- Blindspotting (Carlos Lopez Estrada, 2018)
- Daveed Diggs
- Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
- Wonder (Stephen Chbosky, 2017)
- Ironheart (Disney+)
- Chinaka Hodge
- Chance the Rapper
- Vic Mensa
- Saba
- Noname
- Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye
- Warsan Shire
- Out Out by Robert Frost
- We Are Seven by William Wordsworth
- “Ep. 112 R. Eric Thomas//Here For It” (The Stacks)
- The Storygraph
- “Ep. 48 Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah – The Stacks Book Club (Wade Allain-Marcus)” (The Stacks)
- “The Short Stacks 7: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah//Friday Black” (The Stacks)
- “Ep. 208 A Mercy by Toni Morrison — The Stacks Book Club (Imani Perry)” (The Stacks)
- Roots (ABC)
- I Carry Your Heart with Me (I Carry It In) by e. e. cummings
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