September at Bookworks Features The Poetry of Tony Hoagland, Sarah J. Maas's YA Fantasy World, Katha Pollitt on Reproductive Rights and More!

September at Bookworks features world-class talent for a variety of literary pleasures. Readers of poetry, fantasy, history, biography, and current events will find events of interest, all free admission, on the September calendar.

On September 3, Santa Fe poet and university writing professor, Tony Hoagland, presents new and collected poems from his new collection, Application for Release from the Dream ($16 paperback, Graywolf Press). In a style the publisher calls "mirthful, fearless, and precise" Hoagland assesses modern life, love, mortality, and politics with his fine-tuned analysis and economy of language.

Feminist powerhouse Katha Pollitt visits on paperback tour for her important book on reproductive rights, PRO: Reclaiming Abortion Rights ($16 paperback, Picador). Deemed "explosive" (Flavorwire) PRO reframes abortion as a common part of a woman's reproductive life, one that should be accepted as a moral right with positive social implications. By whole-heartedly defending abortion rights, Pollitt argues, we reclaim the lives and the rights of women and mothers. The author of Virginity or Death and columnist for The Nation, Pollitt's fans include Anne Lamott, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Susan Sonntag who said of Pollitt's work, "[Pollitt is] Brave. funny, commonsensical, morally right on, she's almost always right."

In the realm of fantasy, Sarah J. Maas stops at Bookworks September 5 at 5pm on tour for the fourth book in herThrone of Glass series, Queen of Shadows ($18.99 hardcover, Bloomsbury). The New York Times best-selling series takes places in Maas's fantasy world of Terrasen, which she first created at age sixteen on a fiction blog. The series has now been published in thirteen languages.

September includes several events for fans of history and biography. On September 5, Margaret Randall talks about her new book, Haydee Santamaria, on the influential Cuban revolutionary and activist. September 23rd, Peter Nabokov, known for his work on American Indian history and spirituality, presents a new narrative, How the World Moves, on the life of Edward proctor Hunt, an Acoma Pueblo elder who relayed the Acoma Creation Myth to Smithsonian scholars in 1928 and was a cultural broker between Indian and Anglo peoples.

On September 28, J.A. Jance returns to Albuquerque for an event at the new Central & Unser Library, 8801 Central, sponsored by ABC Library. In this new co-cop procedural Jance features two of her beloved series characters, J. P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker, for the first time together in Dance of the Bones, what has been deemed one of Jance's "most suspensful works of her career." ($26.99 hardcover, Harper Collins)

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