Bookworks to host two events this week

David Steinberg David Steinberg David Steinberg For the Journal

Published July 12, 2025 - 10:00 a.m. Modified July 12, 2025 - 10:00 a.m.

AT BOOKWORKS

Bookworks will host two events this week.

At 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, Kristin Greer Love will give a talk on “Free Speech, Book Bans and What You Can Do.” Love is a free speech attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union-New Mexico.

At 6 p.m. Thursday, July 17, Dr. Wendy Johnson will be in conversation with Dara Saville about Johnson’s new book “Kinship Medicine: Cultivating Interdependence to Heal the Earth and Ourselves.” Johnson currently practices family and addiction medicine, serving patients in rural northern New Mexico for El Centro Family Health. Her career has included overseeing a public health department in Cleveland and directing a community clinic in Santa Fe.

Bookworks is located at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW.

AT BOOKS ON THE BOSQUE

Cindy Huyser will talk with Tina Carlson and Mary Morris about Huyser’s book “Cartography: Poems” at 6 p.m. Monday, July 14. Huyser is a poet, photographer and computer programmer living in Austin, Texas.

Books on the Bosque is located at 6261 Riverside Plaza Lane NW.

AT COLLECTED WORKS

Stephanie Elizondo Griest will discuss her book “Art Above Everything: One Woman’s Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life” at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 19. The book introduces readers to legendary authors, painters, musicians and dancers who have devoted their lives to their creative pursuits.

Griest will be in conversation with Myra Krien, a well-known belly dance teacher in Santa Fe; she is included in Griest’s book.

Collected Works is located at 202 Galisteo St. in Santa Fe.

AT SOMOS SALON

Three poets — Leslie Ullman, Cindy Huyser and Karen Kevorkian — will read from their work at 5 p.m. Saturday, July 19 at SOMOS Salon, 108 Civic Plaza Drive in Taos.

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO

David F. Menicucci will be discussing his book “Two Centuries to Freedom: The True Story of One Family’s Two-Century Migration from Lucca, Italy, to New Mexico and Other American States” at the University of New Mexico’s Castetter Hall at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 13. The discussion, hosted by the New Mexico Mycological Society, will delve into the story of New Mexico’s porcini mushrooms and their importance to Albuquerque’s Italian immigrant community. Castetter Hall is located at 219 Yale Blvd. NE on the UNM campus.