12:00 PM – Poetry Appreciation Group
SPL Central Library
Join fellow poetry lovers to read and discuss poems.
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6:00 PM – Poetry Contest Award Ceremony
SPL Northeast Branch
See SPL’s poetry contest winners receive prizes and read their poems.
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6:30 PM – Bree Loewen: Pickets and Dead Men: Seasons on Rainier
SPL Ballard Branch
Pickets and Dead Men is the story of a young woman’s experience as a climbing ranger where respect is hard won and on-the-job performance can be the difference between life and death. Bree Loewen has been a climbing ranger on Mount Rainier, an EMT in Seattle, and has written for Climbing magazine. She has taught rigging and navigation classes for search and rescue groups and lives in Carnation, Washington, with her husband and daughter.
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6:30 PM – End of Term: Readings
Richard Hugo House Cabaret
Spring quarter students share new work written in Hugo Writing Classes. Potluck begins at 6:30 p.m.; open mic at 7 p.m.
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7:30 PM – Geoffrey Miller: Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs, $5
In the spirit of Freakonomics and The Tipping Point—books about logic in what seems to be chaos—evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller presents Spent. The book looks at the way our choices as consumers advertise our biological potential to mates and friends. Sponsored by Town Hall and University Book Store. Part of the Seattle Science Lectures. (NOTE: SPL has the wrong subtitle for this book, so if you are trying to search it, use the author’s name for best results.)
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7:30 PM – Glen David Gold: Sunnyside
Elliott Bay Book Co.
“From the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil comes an elegant blend of reality and fiction, war drama and Hollywood glamour. Gold sets into motion his cameo-heavy, multi-pronged plot with a bizarre incident in winter 1916, when Charlie Chaplin is spotted simultaneously in 800 places across the country, causing mass hysteria and panic … The result is a dramatic narrative of chance and coincidence, and also a serious reconstruction of an evolving social landscape. It is wholly exhausting and entirely satisfying: to borrow an idea from Chaplin’s great personal-artistic quest in the book, it’s a work as good as Gold.” – Publishers Weekly
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7:30 PM – Shirin Ebadi: Seattle Arts & Lectures Special Events
Benaroya Hall, S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium , $10-$35
Born in northwestern Iran in 1947, Ebadi is the author of numerous papers and articles for Iranian journals, and is the author of Iran Awakening: One Woman’s Journey to Reclaim her Life and Country (2007) and Refugee Rights in Iran (2008). Married with two college-age children, she continues to practice law in Tehran, despite continued resistance, regulations, and political unease. She is also a founder, with six other female Nobel winners, of the Women’s Nobel Prize Initiative, a nonprofit based in Canada that works for women’s rights internationally. She is also the founder one of the first independent, nongovernmental human rights organizations in Iran: The Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child. (Source: Seattle Arts & Lectures)
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