Changing Hands Bookstore

FREE EVENT TONIGHT IN PHOENIX—Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets shares his highly anticipated second collection, HORSES, patiently tracks the impacts of climate change on the land and its myriad inhabitants.

🗓️ 6:30PM MONDAY, MAY 18
📍 CHANGING HANDS PHOENIX
🔥 FREE EVENT

🔗 RSVP: https://www.changinghands.com/event/may2026/jake-skeets

ABOUT THE BOOK

"For now, go out and dream of joy, we know the labor of feeling it."

With Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, Jake Skeets emerged as a visionary new literary voice, offering readers a q***r, Indigenous poetics inextricable from a connection to land. With Horses, Skeets tracks the shifting land of the Navajo Nation: What changes and what remains the same in a place that has been inhabited for thousands of years?

In poems employing numbers significant to Diné thought and lifeway, Skeets explores the reclamation of land, imagination, and language--a world beyond environmental apocalypse, where joy is possible and where transformation is embraced over erasure. Arranged as a quartet, Horses begins with a meditation on two hundred horses found dead, mired in mud that had once been a stock pond on Navajo land in Arizona. What was once a source of life had become a death trap for a herd living on the edge of survival. From here, Skeets's poems radiate outward, tracing the body and its relationship to a landscape marked by geologic time and the fragile, eroding moments of the present.

Fiercely observant, brilliantly constructed, and hauntingly incisive, Horses evokes both the end of a world and a new dawn emerging on the horizon.

TOMORROW IN PHOENIX—Join Jeanna Valenti, principal of LightBox Media and certified mindfulness and mediation instructor, as she celebrates the release of her book THE YOGA OF MARKETING, a much-needed guide to painless, holistic marketing practices that align with who you are.

🗓️ 6:30PM FRIDAY, MAY 15
📍 CHANGING HANDS PHOENIX
🔥 FREE EVENT

🔗 RSVP: https://www.changinghands.com/event/may2026/jeanna-valenti-yoga-marketing

ABOUT THE BOOK

Valenti gives readers her time-tested formula for success, along with life-transforming principles and practices designed to improve energy, attitude, and effort.

Whether you are a yoga fan or not, Valenti's step-by-step procedures, embedded with the ancient wisdom of the chakras, show you how to approach effective marketing with ease. The Yoga of Marketing bridges consciousness, awareness, and mindfulness with the worlds of marketing and business.

Readers will close the cover with inspiration, a foundational understanding of yoga philosophy and the chakra system, practical marketing best practices, and a sense of peace about the process.