Book Bar Denver
4280 Tennyson St., 720-443-2227,
Oct. 4: 5 p.m. The First Saturday Poetry Series continues with Marilyn Krysl and Tom Montag. Happy hour starts at 5 p.m. followed by readings at 6 p.m.
Boulder Book Store
1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074,
Sept. 30: 7:30 p.m. Celeste Yacoboni will discuss and sign “How Do You Pray?: Inspiring Responses from Religious Leaders, Spiritual Guides, Healers, Activists & Other Lovers of Humanity.” Vouchers, $5, include $5 coupon.
Oct. 2: 6:30 p.m. Frida Larios will discuss and sign “The Village that was Buried by an Erupting Volcano.” Vouchers, $5, include $5 coupon.
Douglas County Events Center
500 Fairgrounds Road, Castle Rock, 720-373-8966, e-mail castlerockwriters@gmail.com,
Oct. 4: 8:15 a.m.-5 p.m. “Castle Rock Writers Conference 2014: Write Around the Rock” offers 28 workshops, publishers, agents and more. The keynote speaker is Laura Pritchett, author of “Stars Go Blue.”A pre-conference program, “Reading from the Slush Pile, Agents Share Their Thoughts,” begins at 7 p.m. Oct. 3. Call, e-mail or visit the website for more information.
Old Firehouse Books
232 Walnut St., Fort Collins, 970-484-7898, oldfirehouse
Sept. 30: 7 p.m. Poets Julie Carr, Mathias Svalina and Dan Beachy-Quick are the guests for “An Evening of Poetry.” Refreshments included. Oct. 2: 6 p.m. Local American Buddhist monk Gen Rinzin will discuss “How to Understand the Mind: The Nature and Power of the Mind” by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Gyatso asked Rinzin to speak on his behalf.
Oct. 4: 10 a.m. The Tinker Fairy will host a storytime and sing-along. Tickets are $10 and include a $1 coupon for a purchase at Old Firehouse Books. Cameras welcome.
Tattered Cover, Colfax
2526 E. Colfax Ave., 303-322-7727,
Sept. 29: 7 p.m. Erika T. Wurth will read from and sign “Crazy Horses’s Girlfriend.” Sept. 30: 7 p.m. Adriana Lisboa will read from and sign “Crow Blue.”
Oct. 1: 7 p.m. Simon Winchester will discuss and sign the new paperback edition of “The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible.”
Oct. 2: 7 p.m. John Darnielle will read from and sign “Wolf in White Van.”
Tattered Cover, Highlands Ranch
9315 Dorchester St., Highlands Ranch, 303-470-7050
Oct. 1: 7 p.m. Karen Foster will discuss and sign “Justice for Bonnie: An Alaskan Teenager’s Murder and Her Mother’s Tireless Crusade for the Truth.”
Oct. 2: 7 p.m. Terrence Holt will discuss and sign “Internal Medicine: A Doctor’s Stories.”
Tattered Cover, LoDo
1628 16th St., 303-436-1070
Oct. 1: 7 p.m. Michael Backes will discuss and sign “Cannibas Pharmacy: The Practical Guide to Medical Marijuana.”
