Award-winning poet to read at monthly Wingbeats workshop

AT BOOKWORKS: Poet Barbara Rockman will read from “To Cleave: Poems” at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11. Full of sensory detail and written with astute observation, the book searches for and lays bare the mythic moments one finds even in the most ordinary life.

Rockman is the author of “Sting and Nest: Poems,” winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book

Award. She teaches writing at Santa Fe Community College and at Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families. This month’s Wingbeats Poetry

Workshop is at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 13. The topic is “An Exercise in Derangement,” Carmen Gimenez Smith’s exercise from Wingbeats II, led by David

Meischen.

The Bookworks Book Club will discuss Louise Erdrich’s “Plague of Doves” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 14.

Story Time is at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 15. Join Connie for stories and songs. Free at kids@ bkwrks.com.

Bookworks is at 4022 Rio Grande NW. Call 344-8139.

AT COLLECTED WORKS: Nick Estes will sign and discuss “Our History Is the Future” at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 12.

Jim Kristofic will talk about “Medicine Women: The Story of the First Native American Nursing School” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 14.

Collected Works is at 202 Galisteo St., Santa Fe. Call

505-988-4226. AT TREASURE HOUSE BOOKS & GIFTS: Jacqueline Murray Loring will discuss and sign “KiMo Theatre: Fact & Folklore” from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17.

Treasure House Books & Gifts is at 2012 South Plaza in Old Town. Call 2427204.

AT ORGANIC BOOKS: El Morro poet Standing Feather will read from “The Glowing Pink” 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11.

V.F. Sharp will sign his fantasy novel “The Forest of Arrows” at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17.

Organic Books is at 111 Carlisle SE. Call 553-3823.