JOAN SWIFT

Swift, winner of a Washington State Governor's Award among other honors, reads from her fifth collection of poetry, Tiger Iris. Open Books, 2414 N 45th St, 633-0811, 7:30 pm, free.

THOMAS MALLON

Mallon reads from Two Moon, his latest sprightly historical novel, set in post-Civil War Washington D.C. The book features a "sharp-witted young widow" making her way through the power centers of a young, vigorous country. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

NELSON DeMILLE

New York Times best-selling author DeMille reads from his newest adrenaline-addictive adventure, The Lion's Game. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3300, 7 pm, free.

*TYPING EXPLOSION

See bio box. P.A.G.E.S. Books & Web, 432 15th Ave E, 324-1000, 7 pm, $1/poem.

McKAY JENKINS

Jenkins looks the avalanche straight in the hoary gullet in The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone. Kane Hall 120, UW Campus, 634-3400, 7 pm, free (tickets).

BETTINA APTHEKER

UC Santa Cruz professor Aptheker visits with a reissue of her important feminist text The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis-an important reminder of the 1970 trial of Davis on charges of murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 2 pm, free.

AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITERS' ALLIANCE

A group reading featuring members of the Seattle Alliance, which offers writing groups and readings for fiction writers, poets, nonfiction writers, and playwrights. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 4 pm, free.

SUSAN PLATT

Platt reads from her account of the contribution that visual artists have made toward social change, Art & Politics in the 1930s: Modernism, Marxism, Americanism: A History of Cultural Activism during the Depression Years. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

*DIANA GEORGE, GREGORY HISCHAK,

CLARK HUMPHREY

Three Seattle writers whose work defines what is good. Diana George, whose book reviews have appeared in these pages, also creates works of fiction that stretch the spider web between intellect and dreamworld; Gregory Hischak always includes a dollop of humor in his technicolor works; and Clark Humphrey chronicles the snake-like currents of Seattle cultural history with a mind like a magnifying glass. Musical accompaniment by Dennis Rea. Titlewave Fine Used Books, 7 Mercer St, 324-6379, 7:30 pm, free.

*LYNN EMANUEL

See review this issue, page 31. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, 322-7030, 3 pm, $6/$5.

*DAVE EGGERS

See Stranger Suggests, page 47. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

MICHAEL GROSS

The author of My Generation: 50 Years of Sex Drugs Rock Revolution Glamour Greed Valor Faith and Silicon Chips demonstrates his antipathy to punctuation in a no-holds-barred discussion about intergenerational politics, joined by The Stranger's David Schmader. University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.

*PHILIP LEVINE

Levine's 17 books are rebar in the house of American poetry: covering the blue-collar side of economics, most memorably in the National Book Award-winning What Work Is and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Simple Truth. This reading kicks off Seattle Arts & Lectures' new poetry series. ACT's Allen Theater, 700 Union St, 621-2230, 7:30 pm, $40 for series, single-event tickets also available.

*DAVE EGGERS

See listing for Mon 2/28. University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.

*VERSE & REFRAIN

A conceptual presentation curated by Wally Shoup and Doug Nufer, Verse & Refrain pairs up avant-garde musicians and writers-the result, one hopes, will be a loosening up of form and transcending lyric. Participants include Angelina Baldoz, Tari Nelson-Zagar, Craig Van Riper, Sue Ann Harkey, Willie Smith, and Greg Campbell. The Little Theatre, 608 19th Ave E, 324-6379, 8 pm, $5.

*ROBERT OLEN BUTLER

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler seems to have made a specialty out of investigating the humanity of the Other, and in his new novel, Mr. Spaceman, he takes this predilection to new heights. His narrator-a kind-hearted alien who has been observing earth and takes a bus load of humans aboard his ship to study them-displays a naiveté that illuminates basic occurrences with a lovely and peculiar literacy. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3300, 8 pm, free.

*LISSA WOLSAK, NICO VASSILAKIS

Metalsmith and poet Lissa Wolsak visits from Vancouver to read what she has wrought; from her newest, a long poem called Pen Chants, or nth or 12 Spiritlike Impermanences. Also, Seattle's own Nico Vassilakis, wordsmith, reads from Nothing. Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, 322-7030, 7:30 pm, $5.

*ROBERT OLEN BUTLER

See listing for Tues 2/29. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.

OPEN MIC

Note to regularly programmed open mics: The Stranger will list events only if we receive an announcement-regular listings will be dropped unless we are notified that the events are in fact ongoing.

665

Count the days no more-665 is back, reconfigured by Salon Productions. This open mic is hosted by Sarah Sharp, with featured readers adding to the equation. Four Angels Cafe, 1400 14th Ave, 264-5139, 7:30 sign-up, free.

RED SKY POETRY THEATER

Seattle's longest-running reading series livens up the tiny Globe Cafe. This week's featured reader is the venerable Paul Hunter. Globe Cafe, 1531 14th & Pine, 633-5647, 7:30 pm, free (donation).

HOMELAND

Hosted by Circus and friends, "Seattle's own Little Bohemia" emerges from a hiatus transformed. The Globe Cafe, 1531 14th Ave at Pike, 264-5139, 7:30 sign-up, free.

SEATTLE POETRY SLAM

Seattle's highest-powered slam hunkers down at Dutch Ned's, this week featuring Tara Hardy, "sensation of the 1999 Seattle Poetry Festival." Dutch Ned's, 206 First Ave S, 340-8859, www.seattlepoetryslam.org, 9 pm, $3.