Readings Wednesday 2/21 ALLISON ADELLE HEDGE COKE, ELINOR NAUEN Hedge Cokes ...
ALLISON ADELLE HEDGE COKE, ELINOR NAUEN
Hedge Coke's poems are about contemporary Native American life, while Nauen's concern cars & baseball; at the Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th St. (2nd Ave.), 212-674-0910; 8, $7.
EXPERIENCE THE ART OF NATIVE AMERICAN STORYTELLING
With Clinton Elliott (Anishinabe) & James Greeley (Hopi); National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green (betw. State & Whitehall Sts.), 212-514-3700; call for complete sched., free [through Sat.].
THE PRICE OF MOTHERHOOD
Journalist Ann Crittenden promotes her book on how moms get the economic shaft; Upper West Side Barnes & Noble, 2289 B'way (82nd St.), 212-362-8835; 7:30, free.
Thursday 2/22
MAKOR POETRY & MENTORSHIP READING
Columbia employees Richard Howard & Lucie-Brock Broido tell you how to make better poems; Makor, 35 W. 67th St. (betw. Columbus & Central Park W.), 212-601-1000; 7:30, $7.
Saturday 2/24
ON HER OWN GROUND: THE LIFE & TIMES OF MADAME C.J. WALKER
As Black History Month winds up, A'Leila Bundles signs her book on C.J. Walker, who became one of the country's first female millionaires by selling conditioner in the deep South; County Cullen Library, 104 W. 136th St., (Lennox St.), 212-491-2070; 12, free.
Sunday 2/25
BLACK, WHITE & JEWISH: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SHIFTING SELF
Rebecca Walker reads?must be tough to get a book deal when you're Alice Walker's daughter; Bluestockings, 172 Allen St. (betw. Stanton & Rivington Sts.), 212-777-6028; 7, free.
NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER
Author of several poetry collections & novels that mess w/your sense of reality appears at KGB, 85 E. 4th St. (betw. 2nd & 3rd Aves.), 212-505-3360; 7, free.
NICOLE HEFNER & MATTHEW BURGESS
Read tonight at series hosted by Lungfull magazine, the poetry journal that prints finished copies & rough drafts of each poem, so you can "eavesdrop on the process"; Zinc Bar, 90 W. Houston St. (betw. LaGuardia Pl. & Thompson St.), 212-533-9317; 6:30, $3.
URBANA
Weekly reading series/slam poetry festival. Tonight, Bob Holman; CBGB's Gallery, 313 Bowery (Bleecker St.), 212-677-0499; 7, $5.
Monday 2/26
PRINTONOMY
Monthly recital feat. self-published "language poets" Melanie Neilson, Deirdre Kovac & Rod Smith; Fales Reading Room at NYU's Bobst Library, 70 Washington Sq. S. (LaGuardia Pl.), 212-998-2596; 7.
SLAM THIS!
W/Guy LeCharles Gonzales, open mike, DJs & 2-for-1 drinks; 13 Bar/Lounge, 35 E. 13th St. (betw. B'way & University Pl.), 212-979-6677; 7, $4-$5.
Tuesday 2/27
SANDRA BENITEZ
Reads from her latest, The Weight of All Things; Village Barnes & Noble, 4 Astor Pl. (betw. Lafayette St. & B'way), 212-420-0816; 7:30, free.
HARRY ELLISON'S POETRY CIRCLE
Ellison lectures, discussion of participants' poetry follows; Peacock Cafe, 24 Greenwich Ave. (betw. W. 10th & W. 11th Sts.), 718-651-1664; 6:30, $7.
MICHAEL TOMASKY
Discusses & signs copies of Hillary's Turn for all you classy people; Barnes & Noble, 33 E. 17th St. (betw. B'way & Park Ave.), 212-253-0810; 7:30, free.