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Thursday, January 4, 2018

Bookin' It in 2017

I read the following 15 books in 2017. The titles in bold were particularly influential, inspiring or intriguing.
  1. Joan Jett by Todd Oldham
  2. The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: Coping with the One-Way Relationship in Work, Love, and Family by Eleanor D. Payson 
  3. Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena 
  4. I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck by James Baldwin 
  5. Felicity by Mary Oliver 
  6. One Today by Richard Blanco 
  7. The Amazing Adventures of the Afterbirth of Jesus by Peterson Toscano 
  8. There Is No Good Card for This: What to Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love by Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell 
  9. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson 
  10. Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws by Kate Bornstein 
  11. Girl in a Band: A Memoir by Kim Gordon 
  12. She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton 
  13. This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe 
  14. Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth
  15. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir by Roz Chast 
Posted by Amy E. Hall at 9:34 AM
Labels: Books, Eleanor D. Payson, Emily McDowell, Kelsey Crowe, Mary Oliver, Michael Eric Dyson, Roz Chast

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With a background in music journalism and business speak, Amy currently focuses her creative energy writing free verse poetry and haiku. The southern-born, northern-bred Michigander-turned-Tennessean-turned-Michigander likes circular things -- CDs, vinyl records, typewriter keys, conversations and tostadas.

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CURRENTLY READING: All at Once: Poems, by Jack Ridl; We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions, by Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach and Amanda Doyle
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  • SPIN and TELL

A Sampling of Out & About Nashville (Now OUTvoices Nashville) Articles

  • All in the Family: September 2017
  • All in the Family: June 2017
  • All in the Family: September 2016
  • All in the Family: October 2015
  • From Baptist Brother to Bowie Lover: Michael Fields releases memoir
  • Poet Richard Blanco releases coming-of-age memoir
  • Hal Sparks on being on top and on bottom
  • Record Review: Jennifer Knapp - Set Me Free
  • Singer/songwriter Jennifer Knapp releases memoir

Amy's Books

  • Bathroom Poems, Published December 2013
  • Sugar and Spice and Nothing That's Nice (co-authored by Randy Foster), Published April 2011
  • Haiku:2008, Published December 2009
  • Haiku:2007, Published December 2008
  • Haiku:2006, Published December 2007

Publications in Which Amy's Work Has Appeared

  • The Anchor
  • CCM magazine
  • Filtered Through Time anthology
  • HM Magazine
  • The Holland Sentinel newspaper
  • Out & About Nashville (OUTvoices Nashville) magazine
  • Seven Ball magazine
  • The Space Between arts blog

Amy's Recent Reads

  • Harbor Me
  • Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed
  • Emerging from the Cracks
  • The Year of Magical Thinking
  • Grief Is for People
  • Menopause
  • Practicing to Walk Like a Heron
  • Look Again
  • The Secret to Superhuman Strength
  • The Apology

Artists Amy's Interviewed

  • All Star United
  • Richard Blanco
  • Bloodlined Calligraphy
  • Cool Hand Luke
  • core
  • Duvall
  • Eleventyseven
  • Michael Fields
  • Inked in Blood
  • The Katinas
  • Jennifer Knapp
  • Man Alive
  • paisley dave
  • Twila Paris
  • Jill Phillips
  • The Rocket Summer
  • Siler's Bald
  • Sixpence None the Richer
  • Skillet
  • Hal Sparks
  • Rita Springer
  • Joel Schoon-Tanis
  • Yellow Second
  • ZOEgirl

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