THURSDAY 4/13
Loggernaut April Reading
This month, as in every other month, the good folks at Loggernaut bring you three fine, fine authors for your literary edification. Who, you ask? Well, there’s Daniel Alarcon, whose War by Candlelight was a 2006 Pen Faulkner finalist; Chelsea Cain, author of Does this Cape Make Me Look Fat?; and Eugene poet Anthony Robinson, an associate poetry editor at Northwest Review. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi, 288-3895, 7:30 pm, $2
Graphic Novelists Night
There are more amazing graphic novels out there than I can keep up with (Black Hole by Charles Burns being the most recent mind-blower that comes to mind), but yet I still feel a twinge of embarrassment reading them out in public. Tonight’s a roundtable-style discussion, full of panelists who will try to assure me that my social anxieties are in vain. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, 228-4651, 7:30 pm, free
MONDAY 4/17
Censoring Culture
Robert Atkins, who wrote about art and politics for the Village Voice for 10 years and now heads up the Arts Program of the National Coalition Against Censorship, comes to town to discuss new, subtle forms of suppressing free speech. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne, 238-1668, 7:30 pm, free
TUESDAY 4/18
Jane Hirschfield
Poetry Downtown, we hardly knew ye. Literary Arts’ celebration of poets is winding down, but not before Jane Hirshfield comes to town, sharing her widely-anthologized, as-heard-on-NPR, and seen-in-The New Yorker verse with all of us. First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave, 227-2583, 7:30 pm, $5-18