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LibraryThing @librarything.com · 1d

"A deep dive into the grit and glamor of America's favorite criminal couple and the nation's love affair with guns."

Win a copy of Kirk Ellis' "They Kill People" from the @unmpress.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 5d

On the Farm to Table Talk podcast, Gilles Stockton shares perspectives on problems and solutions for modern agribusiness in his book, “Feeding A Divided America – Reflections of a Western Rancher in the Era of Climate Change.”

Feeding a Divided Country - Gilles Stockton - Farm To Table Talk

There is a growing rural urban divide and it is effecting our food system locally, globally and nationally, especially in this climate change era. Gilles Stockton explains the current situation and…

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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 7d

Just got author copies of my new book, a study on The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). This was a transformative film for me and I am honored to have been asked to give it the dedicated history it deserves. @unmpress.bsky.social @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social

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Daniel A. Olivas @danielolivas.bsky.social · 6d

TCR Talks to Daniel A. Olivas, author of Waiting for Godínez.

Many thanks to Pallas Gutierrez of The Coachella Review for this thoughtful interview about my #immigration play just published by the University of New Mexico Press. thecoachellareview.com/2025/10/02/t... #playwriting

TCR Talks to Daniel A. Olivas, author of Waiting for Godínez

By Pallas Gutierrez The last time The Coachella Review checked in with Daniel A. Olivas, we published a review of his short story collection My Chicano Heart, a work that we described as both experi...

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 8d

Read our new blog post, where author Susan Aizenberg shares her connection to Frank O'Hara and offers advice for new poets. Discover why she urges writers to stay focused on the pleasures of the work rather than the outcome! 📚 ✒️ #poetrysky

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 10d

Today's Featured Poem:

"tryouts" by Gary Jackson from Small Lives published by @unmpress.bsky.social

Read here:
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tryouts

The boy's brown fingers hold tight to your emblem, leave wet impressions on your chest.

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 12d

“In 2018, Rick Bass took the field as a member of the Texas Express, a semipro #football team based in the city of Brenham. It was his first season on the squad, a feat made all the more remarkable because of...his age—60...” Robert Ito of Alta Journal reports

Football As Religion

In his latest book, Wrecking Ball: Race, Friendship, God, and Football, Rick Bass writes about briefly joining a semipro football team based in Texas.

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 12d

Enjoy this conversation about Greenbaum's harrowing experiences making herpetological discoveries in areas of the lowland Congo that very few people have been to. His team discovered over two dozen new species of frogs, lizards, and snakes and one new genus of lizard, Congolacerta.

Venomous River
Changing Climate, Imperiled Forests, and a Scientist's Race to Find New Species in the Congo

by Eli Greenbaum

University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 12d

Nancy Pearlman of Environmental Directions Radio LOVED Eli Greenbaum's book, Venomous River. "The book was so thrilling to me, I stopped working for a weekend and SAT and READ. It should be a movie!"

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#lowlandcongo #biodiversityscience #herpetology

ED 2476 Venomous River, Expedition into the Congo, 25 New Species Discovered

Eli Greenbaum is a professor of biological sciences and the director of Biodiversity Collections at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is a world expert on the amphibian and reptile fauna in…

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 13d

October 3: Teo Shannon celebrates the publication of a chronology of blood: poems with a book reading at Francie & Finch Bookshop in Lincoln, Nebraska. #poetrysky
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Book Launch, Teo Shannon Discusses A Chronology of Blood: Poems

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 13d

"By day, he manages teams of attorneys that have recently been suing the Trump administration over immigration issues, among other matters; by night, Olivas writes."

Pasatiempo offers an insightful look behind the scenes of Waiting for Godínez by @danielolivas.bsky.social

California Attorney Captures the Absurdity of U.S. Immigration Policies in Play Turned Book

"Pasatiempo" speaks to Daniel Olivas, the author of "Waiting for Godínez," a play about immigration the attorney and writer based on "Waiting for Godot."

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 14d

September 30: City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco hosts poet and artist Norma Cole along with the authors of a new book about her work. #poetrysky

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Cover art for "That Tongue Be Time" edited by Dale M. Smith. Text: City Lights Hosts Norma Cole with Dale M. Smith and Joseph Shafer September 30. “The impact of Norma Cole’s work as a writer, artist, and translator crosses continents as well as disciplinary boundaries. I am thrilled that she is finally getting the critical attention that she has long deserved.”—Susan Briante, author of Defacing the Monument

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 14d

The Slowdown invites us to start our day with a poem about being in the moment and about parenting, by Susan Aizenberg. Her book, A Walk with Frank O'Hara, is available from UNM Press.
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1360: Wind, Blue Sky by Susan Aizenberg

Today’s poem is Wind, Blue Sky by Susan Aizenberg.

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 14d

SEPTEMBER 25: Fire Watcher Philip Connors will be in conversation with Mary-Charlotte Domandi at Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe to celebrate the release of his new book, The Mountain Knows the Mountain.

Philip Connors, The Mountain Knows the Mountain | CW Bookstore

From the bestselling National Outdoor Book Award-winning author of Fire Season. "The Mountain Knows the Mountain tells the story of the writer's return to the Gila Wilderness for fire season after…

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 15d

The paperback of AGAINST THE AMERICAN GRAIN by Gary Paul Nabhan has a bold new cover! If you're in Tempe, AZ, stop by Changing Hands Bookstore tonight at 7pm to hear Gary speak and pick up a signed copy. #booksky

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Close up of a rusty chain link fence, with a graffiti-covered building behind. Gary Paul Nabhan, author of Agave Spirits, Against the American Grain, A Borderlands History of Resistance

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 15d

Karen Robert talks with New Books Network about DRIVING TERROR, the story of twenty-four Ford autoworkers in Argentina who were tortured and “disappeared” for their union activism in 1976.

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A blue Ford Falcon and the text Driving Terror: Labor, Violence, and Justice in Cold War Argentina by Karen Robert

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 19d

UNM Press author Jack McElroy will be at the Wheels Museum this weekend, talking about the History of the Parking Meter—one of the topics he wrote about in his book Citizen Carl. Stop by to see his talk Saturday, September 20th at noon!

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Jack McElroy: “The History of the Parking Meter” – Wheels Museum

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That Grape Jelly Person 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @jonerthon.bsky.social · 20d

Finished a delightful history of Jemez tonight, written by Thomas Swetnam and published by @unmpress.bsky.social as likely my last book of Q3. Lovely read if you want a lighter history of northern New Mexico! www.unmpress.com/978082636775...

The Jemez Mountains

The Jemez Mountains are a quintessential New Mexico landscape. For centuries, Pueblo, Spanish, and Anglo cultures have mixed and melded here. Many ancient vi...

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 20d

Inside Hook says THE MOUNTAIN KNOWS THE MOUNTAIN by Philip Connors is one of the 10 books you should be reading this September. Have you picked it up yet? #booksky www.insidehook.com/culture/book...

Inside Hook The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This September. Covers for Wolf Bells by Leni Zumas, All Consuming by Ruby Tandoh, The Future of Truth by Werner Herzog, and The Mountain Knows the Mountain by Philip Connors

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 21d

BRAVO! Painting the Cosmos by Alan Grinnell, about pottery of the Indigenous culture of Coclé of Panama, is a FINALIST for the Prix Pierre Moos, celebrating outstanding publications in French and English in the field of the arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.
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BRAVO! Painting the Cosmos by Alan Grinnell is a FINALIST for the 2025 Prix Pierre Moos, an award that celebrates the most outstanding publications in French and English in the field of the arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. Winners will be announced by Tribal Art magazine at Christie's Paris on September 11.
The Prix Pierre Moos award is given by Tribal Arts magazine, Parcours des Mondes, and Christie's Paris.

“Painting the Cosmos focuses on masterworks in pottery of the Indigenous culture of Coclé, representing one of the great art styles of the pre-Hispanic Americas. The ceramics of the Coclé culture of central Panama are comparable in beauty and sophistication to those of the Maya, Moche, Mimbres, and other Indigenous peoples of the Americas. This artwork represents a deep appreciation of the natural world and an effort to incorporate it into a comprehensive belief system that reflects the intellectual life of the ancient Indigenous artisans of Panama.”—John W. Hoopes, coeditor of Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 21d

"The life of these poems expands beyond earth, full of the threats, and lights, here and beyond." Rebecca Morgan Frank recommends SMALL LIVES by Gary Jackson!
#poetrysky

Mystics, Martyrs, Bats, Blood Sonnets: Seven Poetry Collections to Read in September

Poetry Readers, what a month. Copper Canyon delivers a much-anticipated one-two punch with Richard Siken’s I Do Know Some Things and Natalie Shapero’s Stay Dead. Our most recent U.S. Poet Laureate,…

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 22d

New on the UNM Press blog: Mike Coltrin, author of Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide, reflects on his friend Dave Holmes (1962-2025), who measured the age of many mighty trees in the Sandias and helped to build many hiking trails.

The Chance Encounter That Inspired Mike Coltrin

During a hike in the Sandia Mountains, Mike Coltrin met Dave Holmes, who introduced Mike to a different view of the forest and its trails.

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 22d

Happy Book Birthday to The Mountain Knows the Mountain! This mix of essays and #haibun tells the story of Philip Connors returning to the Gila Wilderness for fire season after missing a year, capturing the various moods of a long season on a mountain.

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The Mountain Knows the Mountain, a fire watch diary by Philip Connors, author of fire season, with an afterword by Bobby Byrd. Cover contains several colored blocks with a smoke trail winding between the text.

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 23d

Congratulations to Jualynne E. Dodson, who has won the 2025 Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award from the American Sociological Association!

UNM Press is proud to have published her book Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba.

2025 ASA Award Winners | American Sociological Association

We are pleased to introduce you to the distinguished winners of ASA’s 2025 awards. The winners will be honored in a ceremony during the Annual Meeting in

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 23d

The Latino Big Bang in California
The Diary of Justo Veytia, a Mexican Forty-Niner

Edited by David E. Hayes-Bautista, Cynthia L. Chamberlin and Gray Bryan Paul

Epilogue by Luis Jaime Veytia Orozco

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The Latino Big Bang in California

The Latino Big Bang in California presents a Spanish transcription and English translation of a diary written by Forty-Niner Justo Veytia, a Mexican immigran...

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