Join us to celebrate the release of BORDERLINGS, the debut book of poems from environmental activist RUSS MCSPADDEN.

Saturday October 18, 2025

6:30pm doors, 7:00pm reading and book signing. Free & all-ages. 

Che's Lounge courtyard

350 N. 4th Ave, Tucson, Arizona

Published by poet Logan Phillips for Artspeak Press, BORDERLINGS is an essential first-person account of the beauty of the Arizona-Sonora borderlands and the pain of their ongoing militarization. 

These are poems of witness, essential soul testimony from the scenes of a paranoid society’s crimes. And they offer glimpses of how we stay human without looking away: cultivating wonder, raising children, fighting like hell for the beauty still woven all around and through us. – Logan Phillips, from the introduction to Borderlings