Event Category: Reading & Signing

Manuel Iris Book Launch at Mercantile Library in Cincinnati, OH

Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Time: 6 p.m., EST

Place: Mercantile Library, 414 Walnut Street #1100, Cincinnati, OH

Tickets: Free, registration is required

Manuel Iris will celebrate the publication of  The Whole Earth Is a Garden of Monsters / Toda la tierra es un jardín de monstruos at his book launch party at the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati. He will read from this poetry collection and be joined in conversation with Cincinnati Poet Laureate, Dick Hague, and poet and professor Felicia Zamora. The Spanish and English poetry collection is the Winner of the Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets. Manuel Iris is a Mexican-born American poet who has served as poet laureate of Cincinnati, Ohio, writer-in-residence at the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library, and writer-in-residence at Thomas More University.

The event is free and open to the public, and registration is required.

About the book:

This award-winning bilingual collection intertwines the lives of a Renaissance painter and a modern migrant worker, offering a fresh perspective on art and migration.

In this highly imaginative work, the lives of the northern Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch (1450–1516) and an imagined contemporary migrant worker named Juan Coyoc, later known as Juan Domínguez, run in parallel as they mirror each other across languages, time, and continents.

By comparing and at times intertwining these two poetic narratives, the book explores themes of art, migration, narco-violence, family, spirituality, and the idea that every human being represents all humanity at any moment in history. Both Hieronymus Bosch and Juan Domínguez become relatable and intimate figures, part of our own story.

Written in simple, sharp language, the book employs surprising imagery and a novel structure to blur the boundaries between reality and fiction, while examining the intricacies of the human condition—from the life of Saint Anthony to the violent acts of narcos across Central America and the U.S.-Mexico border. With formal sophistication and philosophical depth, this work enriches the tradition of poetry about both migration and art, contributing to the literary heritage of Mexico and the United States over the past several decades.

 

“Chamorrita Song” Book Release at Scribble in Los Angeles

When: Friday, February 6, 2026

Time: Doors open at 7:30 p.m., reading starts at 8 p.m., PST

Place: Scribble Community Center, 5541 York Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA

Registration: Tickets are $23.08

Join poet Danielle P. Williams at a book release event for Chamorrita Song, her debut poetry collection. At Scribble Community Center on February 6, doors open at 7:30 p.m., and the reading starts at 8 p.m. Williams is a Black and Chamorro poet, translator, essayist, and spoken-word artist from Columbia, South Carolina. She received her BA in Arts administration from Elon University in 2016 and MFA in poetry from George Mason University in 2021. Tickets for this event are $23.08.

About the book:

Rooted in oral tradition, Chamorrita Song pays homage to Black and Chamorro cultures, honoring the artistic expressions that these communities have created to reconcile lifetimes of imposed trauma. Bearing witness to these many narratives, Williams intertwines spoken word poetry and gospel music with Chamorro storytelling, weaving together the nuanced histories of queer, Black, and Indigenous existence and literature.

Here Williams reveals capacious contemporary forms that speak to the future as well as to the past and that further ground lineages in homelands, finding strength and beauty in collective pain and triumph. These poems transform and spread the messages of those long silenced. They act as song and prayer.

“The Sons of Gunshooter” Authors Read at Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center, Fort Garland, CO

Date: Saturday, March 28, 2026

Time: 1 p.m., MST

Place: Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center, 29477 CO-159 (near the intersection of U.S. Highways 160 and 159), Fort Garland, CO

Authors Dorothy Denetclaw and Matt Fitzsimons will read from their new book, The Sons of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance Story, at Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center in Colorado. The reading will be followed by a time for questions and answers, and book signing. The event is free and open to the public. Dorothy Denetclaw is Tótsohnii born for Tł’ááschí’í. She has lived in Indian Wells, Arizona, her whole life. Dorothy is a survivor of the U.S. government’s boarding school system. After studying business in college, she worked on community development projects across the Navajo Nation as an organizer, activist, and interpreter. Matt Fitzsimons is a former newspaper reporter and the author of The Counterfeiters of Bosque Redondo: Slavery, Silver, and the U.S. War Against the Navajo Nation. He is a member of the Diné Studies Conference, based in Window Rock, Arizona.

About the book:

In 1919, the brother of one of the West’s most famous Indian traders was shot to death in a remote corner of the Navajo Nation.

Part history, part true crime, The Sons of Gunshooter reexamines the killing and subsequent murder trial, while simultaneously embedding the story in a much larger saga of colonization and resistance. The result is a book that’s sweeping in its scope and surgical in its approach. Rewinding the clock to 1868, the authors follow the intertwining paths of two families to offer a riveting, deeply personal account that has been hailed as “a new way of doing historiography.”

“The Sons of Gunshooter” Authors Read at Collected Works in Santa Fe, NM

Date: Friday, March 27, 2026

Time: 6-7 p.m., MST

Place: Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo Street, Santa Fe, NM

Authors Dorothy Denetclaw and Matt Fitzsimons will read from their new book, The Sons of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance Story, at Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe on Friday, March 27. The reading will be followed by a conversation with Dr. Jennifer Denetdale, professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico. There will also be time for questions and answers, and book signing. The event is free and open to the public. Dorothy Denetclaw is Tótsohnii born for Tł’ááschí’í. She has lived in Indian Wells, Arizona, her whole life. Dorothy is a survivor of the U.S. government’s boarding school system. After studying business in college, she worked on community development projects across the Navajo Nation as an organizer, activist, and interpreter. Matt Fitzsimons is a former newspaper reporter and the author of The Counterfeiters of Bosque Redondo: Slavery, Silver, and the U.S. War Against the Navajo Nation. He is a member of the Diné Studies Conference, based in Window Rock, Arizona.

About the book:

In 1919, the brother of one of the West’s most famous Indian traders was shot to death in a remote corner of the Navajo Nation.

Part history, part true crime, The Sons of Gunshooter reexamines the killing and subsequent murder trial, while simultaneously embedding the story in a much larger saga of colonization and resistance. The result is a book that’s sweeping in its scope and surgical in its approach. Rewinding the clock to 1868, the authors follow the intertwining paths of two families to offer a riveting, deeply personal account that has been hailed as “a new way of doing historiography.”

Danielle P. Williams at Not There Gallery in Los Angeles, CA

When: Sunday, January 25, 2026

Time: 2-3:30 p.m., PST

Place: Not There Gallery, 437 Ging Ling Way, Los Angeles, CA

Tickets: Free, RSVP here 

Join poet Danielle P. Williams, author of Chamorrita Song, at the Palabras Literary Salon in Los Angeles’ Chinatown. On Sunday, January 25, at 2 p.m., at Not There Gallery, Williams will speak on the theme of “gospel.” The salon has a guest readers circle, a curated invited list of diverse BIPOC poets, writers, playwrights, and creators to read three minutes of writing to celebrate this salon’s theme. The guest readers circle includes award-winning poets and writers Jen Cheng, Jose Enrique Medina, and others. A light reception is provided. Williams is a Black and Chamorro poet, translator, essayist, and spoken-word artist from Columbia, South Carolina. This event is free and open to the public, but please RSVP.

About the book:

Rooted in oral tradition, Chamorrita Song pays homage to Black and Chamorro cultures, honoring the artistic expressions that these communities have created to reconcile lifetimes of imposed trauma. Bearing witness to these many narratives, Williams intertwines spoken word poetry and gospel music with Chamorro storytelling, weaving together the nuanced histories of queer, Black, and Indigenous existence and literature.

Here Williams reveals capacious contemporary forms that speak to the future as well as to the past and that further ground lineages in homelands, finding strength and beauty in collective pain and triumph. These poems transform and spread the messages of those long silenced. They act as song and prayer.

Logan Phillips at Copper Queen Library in Bisbee, AZ

Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Poetry Workshop Time: 4-5:45 p.m., MST

Reading Time: 6-6:30 p.m., MST

Place: Copper Queen Library, 6 Main St., Bisbee, AZ

Poet and author Logan Phillips will lead a workshop and read at the Copper Queen Library in Bisbee. He will discuss how developing a new relationship to “the poetic unit” unlocked a process of generative revision and original writing that became his latest book Reckon. Techniques such as caesura, parataxis, volta and genre hybridity are defined and offered as possible tools for use by poets—all in an accessible and playful atmosphere. Logan Phillips is Tucson Poet Laureate. He is author of Sonoran Strange, alongside numerous poetry chapbooks and art books, including the NoVoGRAFíAS series (2009–present). A seasoned performer and collaborator, Phillips has toured his work internationally, working on a wide range of arts, education, and land-based projects.

This event is free but pre-registration is required. To register, send an email to: cqlprograms@bisbeeaz.gov.

About the book:

What’s it like to have been born in Tombstone, Arizona?

In Reckon, artist Logan Phillips returns to the fabled town to face the history he was raised on as a boy—gunfights, outlaws, and Hollywood cowboys—for a new, personal confrontation with the West’s foundational mythology. This hybrid memoir also explores sexuality, masculinity, parenting, and what it means to love a land rife with contradiction and “slathered in murder.”

As innovative as it is moving, this memoir is constructed of essays, photography, poetry, newspaper clippings from the Tombstone Epitaph Local Edition, and of course, movie screenplays. As he writes the characters of his past––including Youngfather and Teenme––Phillips finds the real history to be much more complex than the stories he was told. This is Tombstone in the 1980s and 90s, a century after the West’s most famous gunfight––a fifteen-second event still performed every day in historical reenactments––where Phillips’s father works as a historical exhibit designer at the Courthouse Museum and his uncle as a stuntman at Old Tucson Studios

“Chamorrita Song” Book Launch at Junior High Inc. in Glendale, CA

When: Saturday, January 24, 2026

Time: 8-10 p.m., PST

Place: Junior High, Incorporated, 603 South Brand Blvd, Glendale, CA

Registration: Tickets are $15

Join Poet Danielle P. Williams at the book launch for Chamorrita Song, her debut poetry collection, at Junior High, Inc., in Glendale, California. On Saturday, January 14, doors open at 7:30 p.m., and the show starts at 8 p.m. Williams is a Black and Chamorro poet, translator, essayist, and spoken-word artist from Columbia, South Carolina. She received her BA in Arts administration from Elon University in 2016 and MFA in poetry from George Mason University in 2021. Tickets for the event are $15.

About the book:

Rooted in oral tradition, Chamorrita Song pays homage to Black and Chamorro cultures, honoring the artistic expressions that these communities have created to reconcile lifetimes of imposed trauma. Bearing witness to these many narratives, Williams intertwines spoken word poetry and gospel music with Chamorro storytelling, weaving together the nuanced histories of queer, Black, and Indigenous existence and literature.

Here Williams reveals capacious contemporary forms that speak to the future as well as to the past and that further ground lineages in homelands, finding strength and beauty in collective pain and triumph. These poems transform and spread the messages of those long silenced. They act as song and prayer.

“The Sons of Gunshooter” Book Celebration in Leupp, AZ

Date: Thursday, February 26, 2026

Time: 5 p.m., MST

Place: Leupp Public School, Reservation Route 15, Leupp, AZ (45 miles northeast of Flagstaff)

Join the authors to celebrate their new book, The Sons of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance Story at the Leupp Public School on February 26, 2026. This event will include reading from the book, refreshments, and is free and open to the public. Author Dorothy Denetclaw is Tótsohnii born for Tł’ááschí’í. She has lived in Indian Wells, Arizona, her whole life. Dorothy is a survivor of the U.S. government’s boarding school system. After studying business in college, she worked on community development projects across the Navajo Nation as an organizer, activist, and interpreter. Author Matt Fitzsimons is a former newspaper reporter and the author of The Counterfeiters of Bosque Redondo: Slavery, Silver, and the U.S. War Against the Navajo Nation. He is a member of the Diné Studies Conference, based in Window Rock, Arizona.

About the book:

In 1919, the brother of one of the West’s most famous Indian traders was shot to death in a remote corner of the Navajo Nation.

Part history, part true crime, The Sons of Gunshooter reexamines the killing and subsequent murder trial, while simultaneously embedding the story in a much larger saga of colonization and resistance. The result is a book that’s sweeping in its scope and surgical in its approach. Rewinding the clock to 1868, the authors follow the intertwining paths of two families to offer a riveting, deeply personal account that has been hailed as “a new way of doing historiography.”

“The Sons of Gunshooter” Authors Read at Bright Side Bookshop in Flagstaff, AZ

Date: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 6-7 p.m., MST

Place: Bright Side Bookshop, 18 N San Francisco St, Flagstaff, AZ

Authors Dorothy Denetclaw and Matt Fitzsimons will read from their new book, The Sons of Gunshooter, at Bright Side Bookshop in Flagstaff. The reading will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. The event is free and open to the public. Dorothy Denetclaw is Tótsohnii born for Tł’ááschí’í. She has lived in Indian Wells, Arizona, her whole life. Dorothy is a survivor of the U.S. government’s boarding school system. After studying business in college, she worked on community development projects across the Navajo Nation as an organizer, activist, and interpreter. Matt Fitzsimons is a former newspaper reporter and the author of The Counterfeiters of Bosque Redondo: Slavery, Silver, and the U.S. War Against the Navajo Nation. He is a member of the Diné Studies Conference, based in Window Rock, Arizona.

About the book:

In 1919, the brother of one of the West’s most famous Indian traders was shot to death in a remote corner of the Navajo Nation.

Part history, part true crime, The Sons of Gunshooter reexamines the killing and subsequent murder trial, while simultaneously embedding the story in a much larger saga of colonization and resistance. The result is a book that’s sweeping in its scope and surgical in its approach. Rewinding the clock to 1868, the authors follow the intertwining paths of two families to offer a riveting, deeply personal account that has been hailed as “a new way of doing historiography.”

Logan Phillips Reads at Central School Project in Bisbee, AZ

Date: Saturday, February 21, 2026

Time: 7-9 p.m., MST

Place: Central School Project, 43 Howell Ave, Bisbee, AZ

Logan Phillips will read from his new book, Reckon, at this book release celebration at the Central School Project in Bisbee. He will read with another Tucson poet Raquel Gutiérrez, author of Southwest Reconstruction. The event is open to all ages and pay-what-you-will. Logan Phillips is a poet and cultural worker based in Tucson (traditional lands of the Tohono O’odham). He is author of Sonoran Strange, alongside numerous poetry chapbooks and art books, including the NoVoGRAFíAS series (2009–present). A seasoned performer and collaborator, Phillips has toured his work internationally, working on a wide range of arts, education, and land-based projects.

About the book:

What’s it like to have been born in Tombstone, Arizona?

In Reckon, artist Logan Phillips returns to the fabled town to face the history he was raised on as a boy—gunfights, outlaws, and Hollywood cowboys—for a new, personal confrontation with the West’s foundational mythology. This hybrid memoir also explores sexuality, masculinity, parenting, and what it means to love a land rife with contradiction and “slathered in murder.”

As innovative as it is moving, this memoir is constructed of essays, photography, poetry, newspaper clippings from the Tombstone Epitaph Local Edition, and of course, movie screenplays. As he writes the characters of his past––including Youngfather and Teenme––Phillips finds the real history to be much more complex than the stories he was told. This is Tombstone in the 1980s and 90s, a century after the West’s most famous gunfight––a fifteen-second event still performed every day in historical reenactments––where Phillips’s father works as a historical exhibit designer at the Courthouse Museum and his uncle as a stuntman at Old Tucson Studios

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