Collected Works to host authors Terry Tempest Williams, Lauren Camp this week

AT COLLECTED WORKS

The Santa Fe bookstore will host two author events this week.

The first is at 6 p.m. Monday, March 9, with Terry Tempest Williams, who will discuss her new work of narrative nonfiction “The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary.”

The book is described as an exploration of beauty, climate change and transformative moments of hope in a world beset by uncertainty.

The book is further described as “a testament to the power of witness, a field guide to finding grace in the unexpected, and an invitation to engage with one another and our surroundings with renewed intention.”

Williams is the author of 17 books of creative nonfiction including the classic “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place.”

A Utah native, she is writer in residence at the Harvard Divinity School.

At the event, Williams will also be in conversation with Dan Schrag, an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

At 6 p.m. Thursday, March 12, Lauren Camp, former New Mexico poet laureate, will  discuss and read from her newest poetry collection titled “Is Is Enough.”

The poems delve into themes of memory, loss and caregiving, especially focused on Camp’s father’s experience with Alzheimer’s disease.

The collection has been praised for its precise language and ability to capture the emotional complexities of dementia, grief and the bond of teen parent and child.

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

AT BOOKWORKS

Garrett Peck will discuss and sign his new book, “The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop,” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 10.

Peck follows Cather’s travels in New Mexico and how they influenced her writing of the novel “Death Comes for the Archbishop,” which is loosely based on the lives of Santa Fe Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy and his colleague and friend Bishop Joseph Machebeuf. It was published in 1927.

Peck says that the novel remains relevant today. The Atlantic Monthly placed it on its list of 136 Great American Novels.

Peck, a historian, lives in Santa Fe where he leads walking tours called “Willa Cather’s Santa Fe.”

Bookworks is located at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW.

AT BOOKS ON THE BOSQUE

The Albuquerque bookstore is hosting these two author events this week.

At 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12, speculative fiction writer Lauren C. Teffeau will talk about her new eco-thriller “Accelerated Growth Environment.”

At 5 p.m. Saturday, March 14, New Mexico author Jeff C. Carter will lead a discussion,  “The Bogeyman is Real: Folklore, History and Horror.”

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

AT GERONIMO’S BOOKS

Three Santa Fe area poets will read from their work at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at Geronimo’s Books, 3018 Cielo Court, Suite D, in Santa Fe.

The poets are Austin Barry, Mary Strong Jackson and C. John Graham.