* Karsten Hauer With only his trusty Border collie by his side, Hauer traveled 2100 miles through the Rocky Mountains, trying to see what it might be like to move across the earth as a wolf or a bear. Walking the Big Wild is the thrilling book-length result. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, 7:30 pm
* Tim Seibles Award-winning poet Seibles (Buffalo Head Solos) reads as part of Black History Month. Vollum Lounge, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock, 777-7755, 8 pm, free
Mona Z. Smith Playwright/journalist Smith presents In Becoming Something, her new biography of little-known actor/activist/athlete Canada Lee, a black film star once as famous as Denzel Washington or Morgan Freeman. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, 7:30 pm
* Perpetual Motion Roadshow It’s the 21st installment of the ever-lovin’ indie-lit party, the Perpetual Motion Roadshow. This time we have queer-punk teen novelist Kristyn Dunnion (Mosh Pit), “speed metal folkie” Snoovy, and awesome local puppeteer Bruce Orr, of Mudeye fame. Reading Frenzy, 921 SW Oak, 274-1449, 7 pm, Pay What You Can
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Lunstrum presents her debut collection of short stories, The Life She’s Chosen. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, 238-1668, 7:30 pm
Legs McNeil The Christian Right has been racking up victories right and left, but they’ll never be able to stop good ol’ fashioned porn. Journalist McNeil’s new book, The Other Hollywood, chronicles the rise of porn in the ’70s, its ties to the Mafia, and how it’s thrived over the years in the face of all sorts of nay-sayers. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, 7:30 pm
Pasquale Scaturro Scaturro is a “renowned adventurer” who recently traveled 3,250 miles down the Nile by kayak, a voyage that had never been done. Read all about it in his new book The Mystery of the Nile. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, 7:30 pm
* Dr. Riki Ott We like it when corporate megalords like Barnes & Noble bring muckrakers like Ott to the Wal-Mart-fed masses. Ott’s Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$ is a scathing expose of the long-lasting environmental damages that continue to plague Alaska since the Exxon Valdez oil spill Barnes & Noble (Jantzen Beach), 1720 N Jantzen Beach, 283-2800, 7 pm
Ian O’Conner Acclaimed sportswriter O’Conner presents The Jump, for which he followed misguided basketball phenom Sebastian Telfair as he leaped directly from high school to NBA stardom on the Blazers. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, 7:30 pm