Attention book lovers and bargain hunters: Our hurt book sale is tomorrow! Visit our warehouse (in the Haymarket) for lots and lots of cheap books — $4 for hardcovers, $2 for paperbacks, or fill a bag for a mere $12. There’s lots of good stuff, including Kooser titles, sports history books, and, naturally, lots and lots of stuff about the American West. Exciting stuff!

In other event news, Hilda Raz will read from her recent work tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Gallery, 12th and Q streets. Among Raz’s recent work is What Happens, a poetry collection that is new this spring from the University of Nebraska Press. In What Happens readers will find two separate books by poet Hilda Raz, originally published as The Bone Dish and What Is Good, brought together for the first time as the author intended. These musically wrought and emotionally candid poems explore the pleasure and pain of family relationships, the complicated joy of being a woman, and the unconventional beauty of the Great Plains. Readers will meet Raz’s son, Aaron, and find themselves drawn to fundamental questions about identity and belonging.

Also, I really like the cover of this book. I have no idea where the photograph of the bridge on the cover was taken, but it reminds me of a bridge I used to ride my bike across when I was a kid. I know, I know, you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover (that’s probably especially true for those of us in the publishing business) but the cover of this book drew me in before I even knew what the book was about. What’s on the other side of that bridge? Perhaps Raz can answer that question during the discussing/signing following the reading.