March Events at Weller Book Works

EVENTS | MARCH 2026

Visit our events calendar for up-to-date information on all of our events.

Join us for a literary Kaffeeklatsch! Books, coffee, snacks, and chats every Tuesday morning in the Happy Camper Deli on the first floor across from our store.

HELD WEEKLY ON TUESDAYS

3/10 TUESDAY 10AM — Breakfast Club

3/10 TUESDAY 6:30PM — Meagan Skidmore, TransparentSEE

Join us in store for a reading and discussion of TransparentSEE: How I Learned to SEE Through My Journey as a Parent of a Transgender Kiddo, a memoir of awakening, told through the lens of parenting a transgender child.

Blending story, metaphor, and spiritual reflection, Meagan shares how she learned to see her child, her faith, and herself with new eyes.

Meagan Skidmore is a Life Transformation Coach who empowers her clients to navigate life transitions and step into their fullest potential. Life transitions have a way of presenting the opportunity to reset our identity, reassess our values, and process emotions becoming the witnessing observer of our experiences instead of letting them define us.

3/17 TUESDAY 10AM — Breakfast Club

3/19 THURSDAY 7PM, FINCH LANE ART GALLERY — U of U Guest Writers Series Presents The Borderlands Conference: Edgar Garcia and Clyo Mendoza

Join us at Finch Lane Art Gallery for day one of The Borderlands Conference, where two of four distinguished authors from Mexico and the U.S., will present and discuss their creative engagements with the history and culture of the borderlands.

Edgar Garcia is associate professor English at the University of Chicago, where he is affiliated with the Program in Creative Writing. He is the author of Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis, Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography, and Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu.

Clyo Mendoza is a poet and novelist. She is the author of the poetry collections Anamnesis (2016) and Silencio (2018), which was awarded the Premio Internacional de Poesía Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz, and the novel Furia (2021), which was awarded the Premio Javier Morote by the Confederación Española de Gremios y Asociaciones de Libreros and the Amazon Premio Primera Novela. She has contributed to numerous poetry anthologies, including Poetas parricidas (Cuadrivio, 2014), Los reyes Subterráneos: Veinte poetas jóvenes de México (La Bella Varsovia, 2015), and Liberoamericanas: 80 poetas contemporáneas (Liberoamérica, 2018). Mendoza is the recipient of scholarships from the Mexican Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes and the Fundación Antonio Gala, in Córdoba, Spain. She has also collaborated on various transdisciplinary projects and experiments with painting, photography, and sound collage.

3/20 FRIDAY 12PM, FINCH LANE ART GALLERY — U of U Guest Writers Series Presents The Borderlands Conference: Anthony Cody, Edgar Garcia, Raquel Gutierrez, and Clyo Mendoza

Join us at Finch Lane Art Gallery for day two of The Borderlands Conference, where two of four distinguished authors from Mexico and the U.S., will present and discuss their creative engagements with the history and culture of the borderlands. There will be panel session with all 4 authors from 1-2:30pm.

Anthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha, which won the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize, a 2022 Whiting Award, 2021 American Book Award, 2020 Southwest Book Award, 2020 Poets & Writers debut poet, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN America / Jean Stein Award, and the L.A. Times Book Award, among others. His poetry has appeared in Poetry, Magma, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, NinthLetter, Prairie Schooner, ctrl+v journal, and TriQuarterly, among others. He coedited How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology, and he coedited and cotranslated Juan Felipe Herrera’s Akrílica. He serves as poetry editor for Noemi Press and Omnidawn, and he lives with his partner, poet Mai Der Vang, in Fresno, California.

Raquel Gutiérrez is an arts critic, writer, poet, and educator. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Gutiérrez credits the queer and feminist DIY, post-punk zine culture of the 1990s, plus Los Angeles County and Getty paid arts internships, for introducing her/them to the various vibrant art and music scenes and communities throughout Southern California. Gutiérrez is a 2021 recipient of the Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism and a 2017 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She is/They are faculty for Oregon State University-Cascades' Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing. Gutiérrez calls Tucson, Arizona, home.

3/24 TUESDAY 10AM — Breakfast Club

3/26 THURSDAY 7PM, FINCH LANE ART GALLERY — U of U Guest Writers Series Presents John Keene, Punks: New and Selected Poems

Join us at Finch Lane Art Gallery for a reading and discussion of Punks: New & Selected Poems, a generous treasury in seven sections that spans decades and includes previously unpublished and brand new work. With depth and breadth, Punks weaves together historic narratives of loss, lust, and love.

This collection was the 2022 winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay poetry and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry.

John Keene was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2018. In 1989, Keene joined the Dark Room Writers Collective, and is a Graduate Fellow of the Cave Canem Writers Workshops. He is the author of Annotations and Counternarratives, both published by New Directions, as well as several other works: including the poetry collection Seismosis, with artist Christopher Stackhouse, and a translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s novel Letters from a Seducer. Keene is the recipient of many awards including the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Whiting Foundation Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the American Book Award. He teaches at Rutgers University-Newark.

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3/27 Friday 7PM — Kirsten Kaschock in conversation with Siân Griffiths, An Impossibility of Crows

Join us in store for a reading and conversation between Author Kirsten Kaschock and Weber State University English Professor Siân Griffiths on Kashock's thoroughly modern, feminist novel, An Impossibility of Crows, a story of mothers and daughters, inheritance and isolation, and the thin line between care and control. It confronts themes of self-harm, self-preservation, memory, and myth, in a visceral narrative as uncanny as the bird that rises at its heart.

Kirsten Kaschock is a poet and novelist who writes across genres. Her background in dance has impacted her work—she consistently addresses intersections between language and body. She is the author of seven poetry books and has received fellowships from the Pew Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Subcircle, and the Summer Literary Seminars. Coffee House Press published her debut speculative novel— Sleight. She has lived in Iowa, New York, Georgia, and Maryland—and currently resides in Northeast Pennsylvania with her partner. Her work has been called “gothic and intense,” “as fascinating as it is disturbing,” “inventive and exhilarating.” As Cheryl Strayed once noted: “There isn’t anyone like any single one of us, but the way there is no one like Kirsten Kaschock is a different thing.”

Siân Griffiths lives in Ogden, Utah, where she serves as a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Weber State University. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, American Short Fiction, and Booth among many other publications. She is the author of the novels Borrowed Horses, Scrapple, and the short fiction chapbook The Heart Keeps Faulty Time. Her latest book, The Sum of Her Parts, is out from University of Georgia Press. Currently, she reads fiction as part of the editorial team at Barrelhouse.

3/28 Saturday 2PM — Poetry Rodeo - Featuring Sunni Wilkinson with Jami Macarty and Geoffrey Babbitt

Join us in store for a reading and discussion with Authors Sunni Brown Wilkinson, Jami Macarty, and Geoffrey Babbitt on their works of Poetry, taking us through a journey of grief, love, injustice, and the boundaries of art.

Sunni Brown Wilkinson is a poet and essayist. Her newest poetry collection, Rodeo, was selected by Patricia Smith as winner of the 2024 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and was longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Voelcker Poetry Award. Other books are The Marriage of the Moon and the Field (Black Lawrence Press) and The Ache & The Wing (winner of the Sundress Chapbook Prize). Her poetry has also been awarded New Ohio Review’s NORward Poetry Prize, the Joy Harjo Prize, and the Sherwin Howard Award. She teaches at Weber State University and lives in northern Utah with her husband and three sons.

Geoffrey Babbitt's A Grain of Sand in Lambeth won Interim'sm 2023 Betsy Joiner Flanagan Poetry Prize, and his first book is Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light from Spuyten Duyvil. His poems and essays have appeared in North American Review, Pleiades, Colorado Review, LIT magazine, DIAGRAM, Notre Dame Review, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA and a PhD from the University of Utah, serves as Editor of Seneca Review and SR Books, teaches at Hobart & William Smith in the Finger Lakes region of NY State.

Jami Macarty is the author of The Long Now Conditions Permit, winner of the 2023 Test Site Poetry Prize, The Minuses, winner of the 2020 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award-Poetry Arizona, and four chapbooks, including The Whole Catastrophe and Mind of Spring, winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award. Macarty’s writing is supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council, and the generous editors of American and Canadian literary magazines such as Colorado Review, Interim, Seneca Review, Vallum, and Volt. Macarty supports other writers as an independent mentor, editor, and reviewer, and as a creative writing teacher at Simon Fraser University. Macarty lives in and learns from the arborescent desert around Tucson, Arizona, and the rain coast of Vancouver, British Columbia.

3/31 TUESDAY 6PM, VIEVE CONCERT HALL AT WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY — Caroline Tracey in conversation with Dr. Bonnie Baxter, Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History

Join us at Westminster University's Vieve Concert Hall for Caroline Tracey in conversation with Dr. Bonnie Baxter on Caroline's book: Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History, a journey across four continents to seek out and describe these extraordinary vanishing lakes and the people dedicated to saving them. She takes readers along on her adventures by train in Kazakhstan and on an inflatable raft in California, on her encounter with Mormon environmentalists in Utah and an Australian Aboriginal painter seeking to capture her country for her children.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Biological Diversity, Great Salt Lake Audubon Society, the Great Salt Lake Institute, and Save Our Great Salt Lake. There will be book signing afterwards.

Caroline Tracey holds a PhD in geography from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work in English and in Spanish has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. Originally from Colorado, she lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Dr. Bonnie Baxter is a Professor of Biology at Westminster College and part of the Great Salt Lake Institute. She studies the photobiology of halophiles (salt-tolerant bacteria) and microbial diversity of Great Salt Lake with her undergraduate students. She is interested in the astrobiology applications of extremely hypersaline ecosystems, in particular resistance to ultraviolet light and desiccation by halophiles.