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Laura Julier talks with John Busbee of The Culture Buzz about the important places that inspired her memoir OFF IZAAK WALTON ROAD: THE GRACE THAT COMES THROUGH LOSS.

LAURA JULIER Aut. May 2025 Off Izaak Walton Road The Grace That Comes Through Loss (online Audio Converter.com) : John Busbee, The Culture Buzz Host/Producer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Laura Julier pens a deeply touching memoir in Off Izaak Walton Road: The Grace that Comes Through Loss. Listen as she shares insights her personal journey,...

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Pride Titles from UNM Press These works give voice to LGBTQ+ narratives and authors. From fiction to memoir and poetry, this collection celebrates humanity, love, perseverance, and identity.

🏳️‍🌈 Happy ! Keep the celebration going by entering this drawing for a signed copy of a memoir or poems to inspire you! Entries accepted through tomorrow, June 30th! 🏳️‍🌈

Pride doesn't end when Pride Month is over...but this giveaway does! ENTER NOW—Comment below "memoir" or "poetry" by June 30th and we'll choose two winners to receive a SIGNED COPY! We can send only to US shipping addresses.

MEMOIR: Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly by Dana Tai Soon Burgess
Renowned Korean American modern-dance choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess shares his deeply personal hyphenated world and how his multifaceted background drives his prolific art-making. The memoir traces how his choreographic aesthetic, based on the fluency of dance and the visual arts, was informed by his early years in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This insightful journey delves into an artist’s process that is inspired by the intersection of varying cultural perspectives, stories, and experiences. Candid and intelligent, Burgess gives readers the opportunity to experience up close the passion for art and dance that has informed his life.

POETRY: A Real Man Would Have a Gun by Stacey Waite
Stacey Waite’s newest collection of poems interrogates gender, sexuality, and parenthood. From a genderqueer perspective, the poems set their unflinching gaze on the habits and impacts of masculinity. Poignant, angry, heartfelt, and at times funny, this collection asks us, again and again: What kind of world do we make with gender?

To enter:
1) Follow our page, University of New Mexico Press
2) Comment either "poetry" or "memoir" on this post. If you are interested in both books, please make two separate comments!

Giveaway ends at end-of-day June 30, 2025. We will randomly select two winners—one for poetry, one for memoir—and we'll reach out by Messenger on July 1st.
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Ends on June 30th—just comment "poetry" or "memoir" for a chance at a signed book!

Pride doesn't end when Pride Month is over...but this giveaway does! ENTER NOW—Comment below "memoir" or "poetry" by June 30th and we'll choose two winners to receive a SIGNED COPY! We can send only to US shipping addresses.

MEMOIR: Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly by Dana Tai Soon Burgess
Renowned Korean American modern-dance choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess shares his deeply personal hyphenated world and how his multifaceted background drives his prolific art-making. The memoir traces how his choreographic aesthetic, based on the fluency of dance and the visual arts, was informed by his early years in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This insightful journey delves into an artist’s process that is inspired by the intersection of varying cultural perspectives, stories, and experiences. Candid and intelligent, Burgess gives readers the opportunity to experience up close the passion for art and dance that has informed his life.

POETRY: A Real Man Would Have a Gun by Stacey Waite
Stacey Waite’s newest collection of poems interrogates gender, sexuality, and parenthood. From a genderqueer perspective, the poems set their unflinching gaze on the habits and impacts of masculinity. Poignant, angry, heartfelt, and at times funny, this collection asks us, again and again: What kind of world do we make with gender?

To enter:
1) Follow our page, University of New Mexico Press
2) Comment either "poetry" or "memoir" on this post. If you are interested in both books, please make two separate comments!

Giveaway ends at end-of-day June 30, 2025. We will randomly select two winners—one for poetry, one for memoir—and we'll reach out by Messenger on July 1st.
Only US shipping available.
This giveaway is in no way affiliated or sponsored by Meta/Facebook.

Thanks to Cibola Citizen for this thoughtful write-up of THE INDIANS WON by Martin Cruz Smith! "The Indians Won is an alternative-history novel that envisions a sovereign and independent Indian Nation where the traditional values of self-determination, liberty, and equality are the central tenets of daily life."

“The Indians Won” “At one magical moment in your early childhood, the page of a book that string of confused alien cyphers - shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.” Alberto Manguel, “A History of Reading”

Gary Robinson, author of Johnny Geronimo: Art of Darkness, shares his roots and inspirations from silver screen noir classics:

Gary Robinson: from The Maltese Falcon to the Art of Darkness Gary Robinson, author of Johnny Geronimo: Art of Darkness, shares his roots and inspirations from silver screen noir classics.

"Dream of the Bird Tattoo depicts the interplay of the personal and the social in its vision of grief for a parent, and it does so movingly and with powerful softness. It is in the structure, though, where the collection really shines, using the speculative frame of the dream to unfold the possibilities of the prose poem as a means of thinking through the world in which we live and write."

Check out the full review of DREAM OF THE BIRD TATTOO by Juan J. Morales in Strange Horizons

Dream of the Bird Tattoo by Juan J. Morales Morales is able to highlight the blocky quotidianity of life after loss alongside the necessity of imagination in beginning to move forward.

Pride doesn't end when Pride Month is over...but this giveaway does! ENTER NOW—Comment below "memoir" or "poetry" by June 30th and we'll choose two winners to receive a SIGNED COPY! We can send only to US shipping addresses.

MEMOIR: Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly by Dana Tai Soon Burgess
Renowned Korean American modern-dance choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess shares his deeply personal hyphenated world and how his multifaceted background drives his prolific art-making. The memoir traces how his choreographic aesthetic, based on the fluency of dance and the visual arts, was informed by his early years in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This insightful journey delves into an artist’s process that is inspired by the intersection of varying cultural perspectives, stories, and experiences. Candid and intelligent, Burgess gives readers the opportunity to experience up close the passion for art and dance that has informed his life.

POETRY: A Real Man Would Have a Gun by Stacey Waite
Stacey Waite’s newest collection of poems interrogates gender, sexuality, and parenthood. From a genderqueer perspective, the poems set their unflinching gaze on the habits and impacts of masculinity. Poignant, angry, heartfelt, and at times funny, this collection asks us, again and again: What kind of world do we make with gender?

To enter:
1) Follow our page, University of New Mexico Press
2) Comment either "poetry" or "memoir" on this post. If you are interested in both books, please make two separate comments!

Giveaway ends at end-of-day June 30, 2025. We will randomly select two winners—one for poetry, one for memoir—and we'll reach out by Messenger on July 1st.
Only US shipping available.
This giveaway is in no way affiliated or sponsored by Meta/Facebook.

UNM Press titles have been sparking a lot of conversations! Mark Sundeen on Radio Free Mike, Nan Fischer on Write On Four Corners, Matthew F. Schmader on KUNM, Judith Taylor on Garden Masterclass, and many more.

See what's been happening with recent UNM Press books here:
https://www.unmpress.com/blog/2025/06/06/unm-press-titles-have-been-sparking-a-lot-of-conversations/