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! wheelsmuseum.org?sc_event=jac...

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...

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...

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. tinyurl.com/2ysuvnbn

"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

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.

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. #booksky Learn more: tinyurl.com/7vnn7ady

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.

Tune in this morning at 11 am Pacific to listen to David E. Hayes-Bautista discuss "The Latino 'Big Bang' in California" on Radio Bilingue. radiobilingue.org/en/news/the-...

Leslie Ullman talks about the process of writing her poetry collection, Unruly Tree, on a new episode of P English Literature! #booksky #poetrysky

In the Tumbleweed, I discuss a mascot's retirement, what it teaches us about how to love, and book news starring @rlmaizes.bsky.social, @ninamcconigley.bsky.social, @khadijahqueen.com, @scottsemegran.com, @unmpress.bsky.social, @caralopezlee.bsky.social & @karenpalmer.bsky.social! bit.ly/42gAIDZ

Project Write Now hosts Laura Julier, author of Off Izaak Walton Road, for a reading and conversation with fellow memoirist Penny Guisinger. This free ZOOM event will be September 17 at 5 pm Mountain Time/7 ET/4 PT. Register here: tinyurl.com/4csxrh6n #inconversation #writer #riverteethaward

Art History professor Dr. Ray Hernández-Durán talks about creating an exhibition to fill in a missing piece of in the history of the Chicanx art movement. An exhibition is open now, and UNM Press will publish VOCES DEL PUEBLO this December. Watch the interview here:

In case you couldn't join the L.A. Book Launch for Waiting for Godinez, you can watch it here! @danielolivas.bsky.social discusses what drove him to write this Latinx reimagining of Waiting for Godot, and he and Lisa Alvarez act out a few pages together. #playwriting #playwrights #theatersky

“A rich tapestry of sources, narratives, and meditations that reaffirm the enduring human fascination with this landscape..." H-Net Reviews takes a look at THE JEMEZ MOUNTAINS by Thomas W. Swetnam

BOOK LAUNCH! The Design Competition in Landscape Architecture: Pedagogy and Practice Katya Crawford and Kathy Kambic celebrate the publication of their new book with a lecture and conversation with Baker Morrow on September 15. Event and book details at www.unmpress.com/events/katya...

Thanks to @scalzi.com for giving space to Gary Jackson on The Big Idea! Gary talks about the "persona poem" and how he chose to voice the superhuman characters in his newest poetry collection.

Tomorrow at The Ohio State University! Co-hosted by Center for the Study of Religion, Center for Latin American Studies and the Humanities Institute this colloquium will celebrate the publication of Religion in the Americas.

The American Scholar reviews Wrecking Ball by Rick Bass: What happens when a 60-year-old writer dons helmet and pads to compete under the Texas lights? theamericanscholar.org/a-new-sweet-...

Pick this beauty up. @unmpress.bsky.social #dalemartinsmith #normacole www.unmpress.com/978082636797...

Andrew Tonkovich interviewed me on KPFK Radio's Bibliocracy about my new book, Waiting for Godínez: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts. Take a listen! www.bibliocracyradio.org/episodes/8dh... @kpfk.bsky.social @unmpress.bsky.social #playwriting #newbooks #immigration

"I believed that by embodying my words in actors, I could more fully humanize the plight of undocumented immigrants and the harm caused to them by brutal anti-immigrant policies." Author Daniel A. Olivas talks about Waiting for Godínez—out now! #booksky

My heart's @citylightsbooks.bsky.social dalemartinsmith.com #normacole

🦸🏿 OUT NOW! 🦸🏿 small lives by Gary Jackson is a collection of (mostly) prose poems that follow a cast of larger-than-life superhero characters—The Invincible Woman, The Telepath, and The Willpower Man—through the everyday moments that punctuate their adventures. #poetrysky 💙📚 tinyurl.com/ym27s9e6

We’ve been calling Gary Jackson’s new collection “Afrofuturist superhero poetry” and “a graphic novel in verse form,” but if you want to know more about what that actually means, check out this excellent interview on Paul Semel’s blog! #poetrysky #booksky

🩸OUT NOW!🩸 a chronology of blood is the debut poetry collection by @teoshannon.bsky.social, an autobiographical examination of trauma through poetic narrative. #booksky #poetrysky Check it out: tinyurl.com/46ypckpf

The Design Competition in Landscape Architecture: Pedagogy and Practice by Katya Crawford & Kathleen Kambic is the first book devoted to helping design studios comprehensively plan for successful competition entries. Out now! tinyurl.com/36axb5m7 @katyacrawford.bsky.social @acquabassa.bsky.social

"Olivas takes his most audacious step yet..." —Latino Book Review Today is the birthday of my latest book, Waiting for Godínez: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts, published by the University of New Mexico Press! Available at your favorite bookseller. #playwriting #bookbirthday

DCLA has landed! The Design Competition in Landscape Architecture:Pedagogy and Practice is now available through UNM press.The book covers pedagogy and history of landscape competitions, interviews with world-renowned practitioners, and case studies of winning projects.

MY BOOK COMES OUT TOMORROW FROM @unmpress.bsky.social !!!! I am so so so excited. You can get it here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/a-chro...

🎭PUBLISHED THIS WEEK! 🎭Waiting for Godínez: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by @danielolivas.bsky.social is a Latinx reimagining of Waiting for Godot Learn more: tinyurl.com/mrxssce7 #booksky

🏈 OUT NOW! 🏈 In Wrecking Ball: Race, Friendship, God, and Football, award-winning writer Rick Bass chronicles three seasons on the field with the Texas Express, a semiprofessional team in the Dynamic Texas Football Association. tinyurl.com/4y62up2u

14 New Books for September. Many thanks to Alta Journal for including my forthcoming book, Waiting for Godínez: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (University of New Mexico Press). Check out all the great titles! www.altaonline.com/books/g65866... #newbooks

September 5 at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in LA, join 3 Chicanx authors for a celebration of new fiction, playwriting, & poetry. @danielolivas.bsky.social brings to the stage his timely & inventive play Waiting for Godínez, a reimagining of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.

NEW in September! Wrecking Ball by Rick Bass small lives by Gary Jackson a chronology of blood by Teo Shannon The Mountain Knows the Mountain by Philip Connors The Design Competition in Landscape Architecture by Katya Crawford and Kathleen Kambic Waiting for Godínez by Daniel A. Olivas

Hey, Santa Fe! Stop by Beastly Books in the Railyard to meet Gary Jackson and Sara Daniele Rivera, who will be discussing Gary's new book, small lives, a collection of #Afrofuturist #superhero #poetry! Friday September 5 at 5pm More details here: tinyurl.com/5n7uu4av

Thanks to the Boulder Bookstore for hosting this Q&A with poet Leslie Ullman! Leslie talks about the process behind writing her newest book, Unruly Tree.

"Dreams in Times of War/Soñar en tiempos de guerra is a collection that matters—not just for what it reveals about the current Latinx immigrant lives, but for how it reveals them: with compassion and literary intelligence. This is storytelling that crosses not only borders but barriers of silence."

"The harrowing story of a biodiversity scientist's successful quest to discover several new amphibian and reptile species in the remotest heart of Africa." Enter to win a copy of Eli Greenbaum's "Venemous River" from the @unmpress.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky

As a #universitypress, our calendar year has a natural start marked by two events: students returning to campus, and the release of our FALL TITLES! It’s going to be an exciting season—check out the full line-up, and stay tuned here for details on our NEW books. 📚 💙 www.unmpress.com/fall-2025/

“I think this will be greatly to the benefit of the UNM Press,” Hull said, explaining the role the press plays in chronicling the state’s history, culture, cuisine and other subjects. “We all take that really seriously and feel like we have a duty of care to this institution.” tinyurl.com/3nsdberr

"When Anthony Aveni discusses his new book on human contact with extraterrestrial aliens, he starts with an unlikely story about natives of Papua New Guinea meeting Australian gold prospectors in the 1930s."

Author Ron Dungan, an avid fly fisherman, reflects on the history of land stewardship that helped make the 2025 Dragon Bravo Fire so devastating and looks to the next steps nature will take to heal land that so many people love. tinyurl.com/59pxh9hb #apachetrout #landstewardship

"Olivas takes his most audacious step yet: an absurdist tragicomedy that transplants Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot into the terrain of U.S. immigration policy." —Latino Book Review Review of my forthcoming book Waiting for Godínez. www.latinobookreview.com/waiting-for-... @unmpress.bsky.social

"I accumulated pages, though I didn’t know what those short bits would become." Author Laura Julier talks about the process of writing her memoir with Assay Journal. #booksky #creativenonfiction #IowaCity

"This is a valuable book that delves into important, but understudied, labor history." A new review in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America looks at Karen Robert's DRIVING TERROR.

Thanks to the Cibola Citizen for this wonderful review of Women and Gardens by Judith M. Taylor! This book explores the important & often overlooked contributions women have made to the advancement of horticultural science and landscape design. 💙📚 #gardensky

My new essay is live at the Latino Book Review: ICE Raid of MacArthur Park Is as Absurd as a Beckett Play. www.latinobookreview.com/opinion-ice-... #ICE #immigration #MacArthurPark #Beckett #playwriting

The Western History Association conf. program looks great. #WHA2025 will be my 20th in a row. Keeping the streak alive & looking forward to seeing w/ old friends, making new ones, recruiting authors for my @unmpress.bsky.social "The West in Context Series," etc. www.westernhistory.org/2025/program

Dale M. Smith, editor of 'THAT TONGUE BE TIME': NORMA COLE AND A CONTINUOUS MAKING put together a folio of the work of Norma Cole, a Canadian poet and painter who has been a linchpin of the Bay Area arts scene for nearly 50 years. #poetrysky