7:00 PM – Christopher McDougall: Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Known
Seattle Running Company
In Mexico’s Copper Canyons live the Tarahumara Indians, a tribe able to run hundreds of miles without rest and—more importantly—without pain. Christopher McDougall went out to learn the tribe’s secrets, and in the process trained for his own fifty-mile race through the canyons’ savage terrain. Think running is just putting one foot in front of the other as quickly as possible? Think again.
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7:00 PM – Daniel Comiskey & Chris Putnam: Crawlspace
SPL Central Library
The Seattle poets read from their book.
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7:30 PM – John Felstiner: Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems
Elliott Bay Book Co.
“Felstiner’s text here is a series of deep reflections on some of the finest, steadiest British and American poets of the last five centuries, especially the twentieth. It is not about their ideology or activism, but their seeing of the actual world, their ‘dreaming’ as the Mojave storytellers might say, the story of the earth—and their deeply felt love for it. Poetry is, quietly and in the best sense, pagan. Or own English-language poets have—John Felstiner shows us—done their work. It’s up to us now and on forward to remember and learn from that.” – Gary Snyder
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7:30 PM – Peter Ludwin & Michael Spence: Poetry Reading
Open Books
Peter Ludwin reads from his first full-length collection, A Guest in All Your Houses, published by Word Walker Press. Michael Spence presents his third collection, Crush Depth, published by Truman State.
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