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Literary Women & Wine Book ClubThursday, July 7th | 5 pm at the Fair Weather Social Club (Lot Across from the Peregrine)Michaela Carter, an author and frontlist buyer for the Peregrine will facilitate this book club with a focus on the best new releases of literary fiction. The group will be discussing Vladimir by Julia May Jonas. About Vladimir Vladimir is an audacious story about gender, power, and shame told through the charged voice of an English professor at a small liberal arts college. The personal and political come to an explosive conclusion in this clever debut.” Find out more |
Highlands Center - Natural History Book ClubFriday, July 8th | 1-2 p.m. at the Highland CenterDo you love to read? Do you love to talk about what you’ve read with other readers? Do you want to read more, but need some motivation? Join the Natural History Book Club and read along with others interested in topics ranging from beavers to the ice age. This book club is for adults eager to learn more about the natural history of the Southwest & natural history in general. Book club meetings one Friday/month from April-November from 1pm-2pm and meet in the beautiful outdoor setting of the Discovery Gardens Ramada. Register at any time to begin receiving email notices about our current books and meetings. Upcoming Meetings: Friday June 10th, July 8th, August 12th, September 2nd, October 7th, & November 11th (1 - 2 pm)
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Super Poets ReadingSaturday, July 9th | 2PM at the Peregrine Book CompanyPrescott's prize winning poet, Megan Merchant, and Flagstaff's favored poet, Katie King, will read from and talk about their work at 2pm, Satu rday, July 9th Megan Merchant lives in the tall pines of Prescott, AZ with her husband and two children. She holds an M.F.A. degree in International Creative Writing from UNLV and is the author of three full-length poetry collections with Glass Lyre Press: Gravel Ghosts (2016), The Dark’s Humming (2015 Lyrebird Award Winner, 2017), Grief Flowers (2018), four chapbooks, and a children’s book, These Words I Shaped for You (Philomel Books). Her latest book, Before the Fevered Snow, was releas About Katie King During quarantine a Flagstaff business called A Dog’s Walk Bakery sustained customers by selling baked bread from a filing cabinet. For poet Katie King, the trips to the bakery were a “needed sanity walk with a destination … something to help balance our freshly unbalanced lives.” The menu changed constantly; there was no predicting what breads would appear or whether they were destined to be “one-time wonders.” The experience inspired Katie to write poems using bread as a metaphor for the challenges and unexpected comforts of this difficult time. Ultimately she published Bread Poems, which she describes as “21 strangely vulnerable pieces about my early quarantine, in bread.” Find out more |
COMIC BOOK FLEA MARKET II - THE COMIC BOOKS STRIKE BACK!Saturday, July 16th | 10 am - 6 pm at Fair Weather Social Club (Lot Across from the Peregrine)
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Darby Walker Book ReadingSaturday, July 16th | 3 p.m. at The Peregrine Book Company
Darby Walker will do a reading and discuss his latest work, "Do Not Let Them Find This Book." Do Not Let Them Find This Book About the Book |
Open MicSpoken Word Open Mic | Wednesday, July 20th | 4:30PM In PersonSpoken Word Open Mic is a monthly event featuring both poetry and prose. We welcome both readers, performers and listeners. For more information email: |
Death CafeWednesday, July 27th | Peregrine Book Company 4 p.m.Welcome to the Death Cafe discussion group at the Peregrine, hosted by Dani LaVoire and Michelle Souza. We meet at 4 pm on the fourth Wednesday of the month. “We live knowing that everything dies. Like the sun, it’s a fact of life. And like the sun, we tend not to look right at it. Unless you’ve experienced a recent death, it’s probably not something you discuss. But a new movement is trying to change that, with a serving of tea and cake.” About Death Cafe At a Death Cafe people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. The objective is "to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people Listen to this story on NPR about Death Cafes Find out more |
Wrestling With the Truth Reading, Talk, and Book SigningSaturday, July 30th | 2 pm at The Peregrine Book CompanyOne of the oldest living people with HIV, Coach Shegog lost numerous loved ones and even suffered multiple bouts with often fatal |