NANCY ERLEY
The press release describes this reading as "an evening of storms, whales, and pirates on the high seas with female crews." Odyssey Maritime Center, 2205 Alaskan Way (Pier 66), 7 pm, $5. For more information call 374-4001.
ALICE DERRY
Derry, an instructor of English and German at Peninsula College, reads from her third collection of poetry, Strangers to Their Courage. Open Books, 2414 N 45th St, 633-0811, 7:30 pm, free.
* ADAM MANSBACH
Twenty-five-year-old Mansbach gives a reading, with live jazz band back-up, from Shackling Water. Michael Eric Dyson has this to say about young Mansbach: "[He] riffs like Coltrane, flows like Notorious B.I.G., and heats the page with prose that might have spilled forth had Whitman learned the blues." University Bookstore, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
LAWNEY L. REYES
Reyes reads from White Grizzly Bear's Legacy, which describes how the Kettle Falls flood washed away a whole culture. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.
* EILEEN MYLES
In the past two years, Myles, who has contributed book criticism to this paper, has published two collections of poems (On My Way and Skies) and one autobiography (Cool for You), which was well-received. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 5 pm, free.
* MICHAEL HONEY
Honey will talk about "Martin Luther King and the Struggle for the Working Poor: Local and Global Perspectives from 1968 to the Present," and then sign his newly released paperback, Black Workers Remember: An Oral History. Smith Hall, UW campus, 2:30 pm, free. For more information call University Bookstore, 634-3400.
BHARATI MUKHERJEE
Bharati Mukherjee's new novel has a great title, Desirable Daughters. Like most novels in the post-colonial tradition, her book interweaves several themes of class, history, and consciousness. University Bookstore, 634-3400, 7 pm, free. Also Sat April 13 at Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 2 pm, free.
DENNIS HELD
Oregon poet Dennis Held reads from his debut collection, Betting on the Night. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
SUNDAY 4/7
* JOHN FELSTINER
My intern, Colin Booy, who knows more about modern poetry than I do, wrote this note to me: "Felstiner is, with Michael Hamburger, a leading translator of Paul Celan, whose poems in German are almost untranslatable because they are so fraught with layers and codes of meaning--etymological, referential, scientific, alchemical, mystical--and he will be speaking on, among other things, this difficulty." Open Books, 633-0811, 3:30 pm, free.
"BROTHER VOID AND THE CHURCH OF COMPASSIONATE NIHILISM"
Author/performer Andrew Boyd brings his upside-down church service to Seattle as part of a national tour to push his new book: Daily Afflictions--The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, 322-7030, 7 pm, $5.
MONDAY 4/8
MICHAEL HARDT
See Stranger Suggests. The co-author of Empire delivers a talk titled "Politics of the Multitude." Savery Hall, room 239, UW campus, 7 pm, free. For more information call University Bookstore at 634-3400.
* URSULA K. LE GUIN
If you don't know who Le Guin is, then you must be from Mars. If you are from Mars, then give me call because I have never met anyone from Mars, the red sexy planet. Benaroya Hall, 200 University Street, 7:30 pm, $8-18. For tickets call 621-2230.
DAVID HAJDU
Hajdu reads from Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
WHITNEY OTTO
Author of How To Make An American Quilt reads and signs her new novel, A Collection of Beauties at the Height of their Popularity. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.
* ALFREDO ARREGUĂŤN
ArreguĂn and Lauro Flores discuss their new book, Patterns of Dreams and Nature. This is part of the "A Latino National Conversation" series, curated by writer-in-residence Kathleen Alcalá. Richard Hugo House, 322-7030, 7 pm, $6.
BEVERLY BELL and GUESTS
Bell and friends talk about the plight of Haitian women. Zeitgeist Art & Coffee, 171 S Jackson, 7 pm, free. For more information call Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600.
LEWIS RICHMOND
Richmond reads Healing Lazarus, a book about his near-death experience. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.
WEDNESDAY 4/10
DAVID DAVIDAR
Davidar, who is the head of Penguin India, one of the largest English-language publishers in the world, reads from his new novel The House of Blue Mangoes. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
