This Week at Bookworks Includes Marjane Ambler, Rachel Ballentine and More

This week at Bookworks includes many events such as Provactive poetry April 25-30, authors such as Marjane Ambler and Rachel Ballentine, and events for children, too. Go to www.bkwrks.com/event for more information!

Thursday, April 24
7pm • World Book Night Reception •
All givers are invited to attend to share WBN giving experiences, some snacks, and special entertainment to be announced.

Friday, April 25
7pm • Marjane Ambler • Yellowstone Has Teeth
Written with grace and intimacy, Yellowstone Has Teeth shares the untold stories of the men and women who live and work in Yellowstone National Park and are forever changed by their experiences.

Saturday, April 26
3pm • Rachel Ballentine • Recipoetry of a Kitchen Mystic: A Cookbook Scrapbook
Originally a handmade book of collages of vintage handwritten recipes, original poetry about food and cooking, original recipes, and collages of images of women. It looks like a book you might have inherited from your great-grandmother.

5pm • Ken Arkind • Denver Performance Poet reads fromCoyotes
Ken Arkind is a National Poetry Slam Champion and full time touring artist who has performed his work in almost all of the lower 48, Hawaii and Canada.

Sunday, April 27
1pm • Lucinda Sachs • Believe in the Wind
Believe in the Wind is a story of hope and redemption set across the backdrop of New Mexico in the Great Depression.

3pm • Poetry with Renny Golden, Ann Hunkins & Mitch Rayes •
Join us for an afternoon of poetry, with New Mexico poets Renny Golden, Ann Hunkins, and Mitch Rayes.

Tuesday thru Friday, April 29 thru May 2 at the Marriott Pyramid North
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Tuesday, April 29
7pm • Carlos Contreras • Time Served
This provocative debut from National Poetry Slam Champion Carlos Contreras is in two parts: one, a monologue-style musing on working in a correctional facility told from an insider/outsider perspective; and two, an homage to veterans of other kinds of war who must learn to live inside and outside the prisons of the mind and body.

Wednesday, April 30
7pm • Allison Moore • Shards: A Young Vice Cop investigates the Darkest Case of Meth Addiction, Her Own
As a beautiful, ambitious, and fearless young woman, Allison Moore had everything going for her: She had been the star student of her recruit class and was quickly promoted to vice cop at the Maui Police Department, while earning the respect of her colleagues and a stellar reputation. But when a doomed love affair with another cop led Allison to seek a desperate escape, her life took a sudden and violent plunge.

For Kids

Sunday, April 27
5pm • Teen Book Club!
Calling all teens! Come help us build a teen book club with Connie and Bookworks' Staff! Join other Albuquerque teens to talk about books and choose a list of books to discuss over the coming months. Bring your suggestions love of reading! Free and open to all.

Monday, April 28

5:30pm • Open Mic for Young Writers K-12 •
Up and coming writers are invited to share their written works at the mic at Bookworks. Please join us for a presentation by writers from kindergarten to graduating high school seniors. Poetry, short stories, and other writings are welcome. Teachers: if your students are working on a writing project please email Connie kids@bkwrks.com. We hope to make this an annual event to support the youth writers in our community. Families: bring a cheering section!

Looking Ahead

Thursday, May 1
7pm • Nathaniel Philbrick • Bunker Hill
Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, brings his prodigious talents to the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution.

Sunday, May 4
3pm • Natalie Goldberg • Living Color: Painting, Writing, and The Bones of Seeing
From fill-in art journals to self-help books on creativity, more than ever the public is striving to bring artistic enlightenment into their everyday lives. In Living Color, one of the country's most celebrated writers expounds on her own path to artistic inspiration.

Wednesday, May 7
7pm • Michael McGarrity • Backlands
An expansive, epic tale like Philipp Meyer's The Son, and in the wonderful storyteller vein of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, McGarrity's Backlands showcases his keen eye for historical detail, awe-inspiring scenery, and the bitter harshness of life on the last vestiges of the twentieth-century frontier West.

Thursday, May 8
7pm • Piper Kerman • Women's Justice Project Fundraiser
Orange is the New Black / at UNM's Woodward Hall / $5 donation required
When Piper Kerman was sent to prison for a ten-year-old crime, she barely resembled the reckless young woman she'd been when she committed the misdeeds that would eventually catch up with her.

Saturday, May 10
7pm • A Word with Writers with George RR Martin & Diana Gabaldon • At the KiMo Theater / Tickets for the event are $7 for open seating. The first seven rows of the theater witll be sold for $20
Bookworks and the Albuquerque Public Library Foundation are collaborating on a new literary series, a Word with Writers, which will feature writers in conversation with one another. Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the Albuquerque Public Library Foundation.

Wednesday, May 28
7pm • Darynda Jones & Jeffe Kennedy launch new novels! Sixth Grave on the Edge & The Twelve Kingdoms
Join these born storytellers as they present their novels.