Please join us as we welcome some of Metro-Atlanta’s finest poets for another program in our continuing series hosted by poet and novelist, Collin Kelley presented with our partners at Poetry Atlanta, Inc.

The Georgia Center for the Book is pleased to welcome back award-winning, New York Times bestselling author, Barbara Brown Taylor, who will discuss her latest book, Learning to Walk in the Dark. Challenging everything she has been told of the perils in darkness, Barbara Brown Taylor embarks on a year-long journey through caves, underground nightclubs, and unlit cabins, discovering a life-saving antidote within the...

Join us as we welcome Will Harlan, who will discuss his captivating tale of a rugged island and the remarkable woman fighting to preserve its precious wilderness. Untamed tells the story of Carol Ruckdeschel, the wildest woman in America. Feeding on road kill, wrestling alligators, living in a ramshackle cabin she built herself, Carol Ruckdechel has defied societal norms, dedicating her time to defend...

What happens when someone we know dies? In American Afterlife, Kate Sweeney weaves together a collective portrait of illuminating stories—of a funeral director, an obituary writer, even a Midwestern museum that takes us back in time to meet our death-obsessed Victorian progenitors—revealing something larger: a landscape that feels at once strange and familiar, one that’s by turns odd, tragic, poignant, and sometimes even funny.

The Same Sweet Girl’s Guide to Life by Cassandra King offers inspiration and solid advice to new graduates that can sustain them through life’s inevitable ups and downs. Delivered to a graduating class at her alma mater, Montevallo College, The Same Sweet Girl’s Guide to Life offers advice that will only grow in meaning throughout the years. Written with a blend of humor and...