This Week at Bookworks Features Amy Fusselman, Logan Phillips, and More

This week's events at Bookworks are below. For more information, visit bkwrks.com/event.

Friday, April 3
7pm • Amy Fusselman • Savage Park
Part memoir, part manifesto, this exploration of the underside of America's obsession with safety is prompted by the author's visit to a thrillingly alarming adventure playground in Tokyo.

Saturday, April 4
3pm • Logan Phillips • Sonoran Strange
Sonoran Strange is a poem cycle about the Arizona-Sonoran borderlands, as told through the stories of historic, ironic, and sometimes ludicrous characters and events.

Tuesday, April 7
7pm • Lisa Gill, Renny Golden & Match Rayes • Why Not Be Fire?
Poets join us for a National Poetry Month feature.

Thursday, April 9
6pm • Rethinking Schools -- Teaching for Social Justice in Tough Times at the National Hispanic Cultural Center Bank of America Theater 1701 4th SW
This event will entail participatory exercises and discussions focused on multicultural education, critical literacy, and social justice. Bill Bigelow, Linda Christensen, and Wayne Au from Rethinking Schools will lead the evening.

Friday, April 10
6pm • Native American Community Academy Fundraiser with WordCraft Circle of Writers & NACA Radical Poets
Native American Community Academy Radical Poets perform at Bookworks. Lee Francis and WordCraft Circle of Native Writers sponsors and presents on WordCraft's new membership plans.

Saturday, April 11
3pm • Shubhraji • In the Lotus of the Heart: The Essence of Relationships
Shubhraji, an internationally renowned Vedanta teacher, draws on her experience working with people around the world who want to create more loving, fulfilling relationships.

5pm • Mas Tequila Reading •
Richard Vargas and contributors to Mas Tequila Review read at Bookworks. Readers at the celebration include Rich Boucher; Lauren Camp; Jennifer Givhan; Larry Goodell; Jennifer Krohn, also reading for Liz Napieralski; Mary Oishi; Richard Oyama; & Margaret Randall.

For Kids

Thursday, April 9
10:30am • Story Time
They might cover the same ground, letters from A to Z but alphabet books take on the topic in wildly different ways. We will read a few examples, sing songs, and have a little snack at our weekly opportunity to enjoy reading in a group.

Saturday, April 11
10:30am • Stories on Saturday!
Local author Caroline Starr Rose will join us for a book signing for her new book, Bluebirds. Caroline is also the author of May B. She writes beautifully about young people in a historical context and brings out not only their stories but an important look at the time and place which shape lives.

Clubs

Monday, April 6
3pm • Vamos a Leer Book Club • Serafina's Promise
by Ann Burg
Every month, educators, teachers, librarians, and community members from all over Albuquerque come together. No need to have read the entire book or even a chapter...we welcome conversation and your classroom endeavors.
Serafina made a secret promise to go to school and learn to read so she can become a doctor with her best friend, Julie Marie. But following her dream isn't easy-endless chores, little money and stomach-rumbling hunger all test her resolve.

Wednesday, April 8
7pm • Bookworks Book Club • The Chaco Canyon: AnEncyclopedic Guide by R. Gwinn Vivian & Bruce Hilpert
Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico contains a remarkable set of Ancestral Puebloan buildings. Occupied between AD 850 and 1150, Chaco appears to have been the cultural and political center for much of what is now the Four Corners region. Many sites in the Chaco Culture National Historical Park have been continuously studied for more than a century. Vivian and Hilpert wrote this encyclopedic handbook to help organize the extensive amount of information available for Chaco.
Looking Ahead

Saturday, May 2
3pm • David Thurlo • Grave Consequences
Charlie Henry, former Special Forces operative and newly minted pawnbroker, thinks that he's finally turned a corner and the calm, quiet life he's always wanted is just ahead. But life never really works out that way. ore »

Tuesday, May 5
7pm • Anne Hillerman at the South Broadway Cultural Center 1025 Broadway SE • Rock With Wings
Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigate two perplexing cases in this exciting Southwestern mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Spider Woman's Daughter. A $5 admits one. All ticket sales benefit Albuquerque Public Library Foundation.

Saturday, May 9
3pm • Michaela Carter • Further Out Than You Thought
From award-winning poet Michaela Carter comes a taut and erotically charged literary debut, set against the chaos of the 1992 L.A. riots, about three twentysomethings searching for meaning in their lives. In the Neverland that is Los Angeles, where make-believe seems possible, three dreamers find themselves on the verge of transformation.

Wednesday, May 20
7pm • Craig Smith • A Vision of Voices: John Crosby and the Santa Fe Opera
A destination for thousands of opera lovers every year and the anchor of Santa Fe's thriving arts scene, the Santa Fe Opera owes its existence to the vision and hard work of one man: John O'Hea Crosby (1926-2002), who created the company when he was only thirty years old and guided its fortunes for the next forty-five years. This book, the first in-depth exploration of Crosby's career, shows how the Opera reflected his passions for music and the arts.

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