Community Calendar

Hosted on the last Monday of every month, this reading series features performance poetry from nationally noted Indie poets and showcases the work of local and regional voices from all backgrounds.
Just be there and sign up!

Our FEATURED READER for August is Luisa Vidaurre, who is flying in from Albany, NY.

As always, our AWESOME Open Mic, hosted by Victory, follows our Feature!

NO COVER
NO PAY-for-PLAY
NOT A COMPETITION!
Free Speech - Multilingual work encouraged - LGBTQ+ embracing

Open to ALL, regardless of housing situation.

Former New Mexico State Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino will discuss and sign his new historical fiction novel, Beyond the Edge of the Known World. This lush historical novel is a family saga set against the backdrop of the Spanish colonial world.

New Mexico has a well-earned reputation as home to the mysterious and bizarre. It is a land of contradictions and stark contrasts, a place where the exceptional and the commonplace, the rational and the mystical, mix freely. In Weird New Mexico, researcher Benjamin Radford examines monsters and miracles, ghost stories and UFOs, conspiracy theories and historical mysteries across the Land of Enchantment.

From the endless star-filled skies of her chosen high-desert home to the lakes and farmland of her New England childhood to the imagined villages of her Ukrainian ancestors, award-winning poet Barbara Rockman reaches for belonging. Rockman’s Jewish heritage is woven through her searches for the ineffable, complemented by ruminations on aging, memory, and our place in the natural world. Grief sings here, tempered by grace and gratitude in this powerful collection by a poet at the height of her craft.

Barbara Rockman is the author of two other award-winning collections of poetry, to cleave (UNM Press) and Sting and Nest. For the past thirty years, Rockman has taught poetry at Santa Fe Community College and in community workshops. She lives in Santa Fe.

Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom.

With the theme “Intelligent Innovation: Shaping the Future with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Data Science,” the conference aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, promote innovative research, and encourage discussions on AI-driven solutions addressing real-world challenges across healthcare, education, finance, manufacturing, cybersecurity, smart cities, agriculture, and sustainable development.