Adrien Lawyer will read from and sign copies of new book at Bookworks

AT BOOKWORKS

Adrien Lawyer will read from and sign copies of his new book “Gender Transition for Dummies” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 22, at Bookworks.

Lawyer will also conduct a question-and-answer session with members of the audience.

Lawyer is co-founder and co-director of the Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico. He has facilitated more than 4,000 transgender cultural fluency training sessions throughout the United States.

Bookworks is located at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW.

AT SOMOS SALON

Nick Flynn, a writer, poet and playwright, will read from his work at 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 25, at SOMOS Salon. Flynn has been awarded fellowships from the Library of Congress and the Guggenheim Foundation, and he is on the creative writing faculty at the University of Houston.

Those interested in attending the event are asked to register online at somostaos.org.

The salon is located at 108 Civic Plaza Drive in Taos.

A BOOK ABOUT INTERNATIONAL RIVERS

Basia Irland, founder of the Art and Ecology program at the University of New Mexico, is the author of “What Rivers Know: Listening to the Voices of Global Waterways.” The book presents 25 intimate portraits of rivers from around the world. Among them are the Rio Grande, the Animas/San Juan rivers (Gold King Mine spill), the Seine in France and the Chaobai in China.

Readers learn the rivers’ histories, current environmental health status, and their struggles at solving their relationships with humans and with climate change. And Irland’s book also discusses innovative practices for addressing pollution, recycling wastewater and what steps — if any — are being taken to remedy their ailments.

Lucy R. Lippard, an author/art critic who lives in Galisteo, wrote the book’s foreword.

The publisher is Texas A&M University Press. Irland is professor emerita in the UNM Department of Art and Art History.

Adrien Lawyer will read from and sign copies of new book at Bookworks