"Figuratively Speaking"

Now Showing @ Inkberry Books


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Inkberry Books: January 8, 2026 at 7 p.m: 

and wrote The Newsphere: Understanding the News and Information Environment, The Mystic As Everyman, and most recently Just Trust Life: A Journey with Teilhard de Chardin.

Socials: JustTrustLife.com OurNoosphere.com

Beth will be reading from her memoir, Life Upside Down: The Fall That Changed Our Lives, Lifting Me Through Grief, Love and Quadriplegia. It is her story of how she came right back up after her beloved had a tragic mountain biking accident. It's been called a romance that reads like a thriller and an unofficial guidebook to grief.

devoted parent of four children, an explorer, writer, mentor and friend, L. Zukosky writes to impart useful insights and connect with parents of competitive athletes, with a reminder that sports are supposed to be fun. Laura will be discussing her book, We're Not Here for the Hockey: A Guide to Raising a Competitive Athlete Without Going Nucking Futs.

poetry, a CD, and is writing 5 new books.

Val performs and teaches at events around Colorado. She believes we all just want to be seen and feel something real and her approach to this is to share a short poem everyday, usually with a “stranger”. Doctor, IRS agent, a cop and grocery clerks all receive a quickly recited poem and they often cry and share a hug.

You can find her at www.poetval.com

Inkberry Books: February 7th at 7:00 PM

As the murder trial proceeds, Samantha's personal life is the highlight of town gossip, and her reputation, as the only source of medical knowledge for the community, is put to the test.

Oh''Them Days on Red Hoss Mountain, by Leslie Finn, is inspired by a tale written by poet Eugene Field, "Casey's Table D'Hote" who stayed at the hotel in Gold Hill during his days of writing for a Denver newspaper in the late 1800's. Casey, the fictional character in the poem, is brought to life as his closest confidant, Samantha Aikens, struggles to find independence in a man's world.

This story of family, friendship, romance, and coming-of-age, captures the reader while it moves from past to present as the brave and true endure life during the Colorado gold rush.

Inkberry Books: February 13th at 7:00 PM

into the hardest conversations nobody ever prepared you for. Discover how to build a resilient compass your children can rely on to navigate modern challenges long after they leave your side.

realizing that the most important conversations he needed to have with his kids--about AI, social connection, safety, and their path to the future--were the ones nobody had prepared him for. He lives in Boulder with his wife, Jen, and their 15-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son.

Inkberry Books: February 21st at 7:00 PM

or corpse spirit, to serve him; the young king must do as he is told, and soon enough he is also under the sway of the no less malevolent spirit. Like a bat, the spirit hangs from the branches of a tree, and the king is condemned to bear it on his back through a dark forest as it whispers a riddling story in his ear. These are tales of suicidal passion, clever deceit, patriarchal oppression, and narrow escapes from death, and as long as the king can resolve the problems they pose, his bondage continues; the vampiric creature goes on commanding his attention in the dark. Only when the king is out of answers will he at last be free, though when that comes to pass--well, that’s when the whole story takes a new turn.

Douglas Penick’s re-creation of this ancient work brings out all its humor and horror and vitality, as well its unmistakable relevance in a world of stories gone viral.

Agni, Kyoto Journal, The Utne Reader, Cahiers de l'Herne, etc. His book of essays, The Age of Waiting on resonances of ecological collapse, was published in 2021 by Arrowsmith Press. In 2025, Punctum Books published Winter Light--On Late Life's Radiance, essays on old age. Loss and unexpected discoveries.

Inkberry Books: March 7th at 7:00 PM

and then examining hundreds of other verses, it maintains that the end-time prophecies in the Bible were meant to be warnings to Christians that they will not escape the troubles and trials that lie ahead. Instead, by noting the recurring imagery in end-times prophecies, it concludes that Christians will witness or experience nearly every event typically associated with the end times. It also concludes that there are at least three separate accounts of the return of Jesus in Revelation.

It's Not Too Late, in response to the tragic shootings at Columbine High School. This play has been performed hundreds of times throughout the world and has been translated into at least five different languages including French, Russian, and Arabic. Dick also has had op-eds published in the Boulder Daily Camera and the Longmont Times-Call.

Inkberry Books: April 17th at 7:00 PM

prejudice, greed, and envy. East of Eden's Gate confronts these tragic maladies of humanity with creative and provocative verse, as well as essays. The book will leave the reader contemplating when war truly is necessary versus when it should be avoided at all costs. It disarms the societal objections to the uncomfortably confrontational topic--spotlighting the insidiously self-serving or sometimes necessarily unfortunate motives for war--revealing its true victims. It is a must read for the poet, or poetry lover, who longs to be challenged in their thinking--with riveting imagery and story-telling.