Sun, Nov 15
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
James P. Lenfestey, Coyote & Thunderbird
Award-winning poet and storyteller James P. Lenfestey reimagines one of North America’s oldest and most elusive figures for the modern world: Coyote—comic healer, holy troublemaker, restless wanderer, lover, hustler, father, and fool.
Date, Time & Location
Nov 15, 2026, 4:30 PM MST
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
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Order Coyote & Thunderbird ($18.99, paperback) online from CWB or call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
In Coyote and the Thunderbird, wildly inventive tales send Coyote across highways, powwows, cities, weddings, beaches, ballparks, and backroads in a mythic red Thunderbird, where every detour becomes a new adventure, and every joke carries a flash of wisdom. Along the way, he falls in love, loses and finds family, tangles with desire, weather, modern life, and his own legendary appetite for trouble.
Rooted in the rich tradition of Indigenous Trickster stories yet unmistakably contemporary in voice and setting, Coyote and the Thunderbird blends mythology, literary fiction, humor, satire, and spiritual play into a book that is both timeless and new. Lenfestey’s Coyote is hilarious, unruly, tender, reckless, and deeply alive—a shape-shifting presence moving through the American landscape with mischief, heartbreak, and wild insight.