* 5:30 PM: Huichun (Amy) Liang and Steven Schroeder read from their bilingual poetry anthology, Two Southwests, at Elliott Bay Book Co. Bill Porter will be talking about China later, so this is a pertinent preliminary. Presented in association with Monkey Paradox Productions.
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* 7:00 PM: Meany Theatre hosts Byron Katie, author of several books about getting your life together, a process that she calls The Work. Her most recent book is Who Would You Be Without Your Story?: Dialogues with Byron Katie. I tend to be a little skeptical of self-help gurus, but while Katie’s husband, Stephen Mitchell, seems to pitching the guru thang, Katie herself is lively and grounded.
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* 7:30 PM: Bill Porter translates Chinese poetry. A lot of Chinese poetry. And some other Chinese stuff. Tonight, he’ll be at Elliott Bay Book Co. to promote Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China, the story of his 2006 trip to visit (or revisit) historical sites important to Zen Buddhism.
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