After yesterday’s drought, it’s a bona-fide mini-deluge-ette:

We’ve got a mystery reading (from a novel featuring “television legend and amateur sleuth Polly Pepper”), an open mic, two group readings at Elliott Bay Book Company (one featuring women of color, the other featuring the African American Writers Alliance) and Elias Khoury at the library, reading from Yalo, an interesting novel with a boring cover.

Down at the McLeod Residence in Belltown, Nico Vassilakis reads from his new book, Text Loses Time. Vassilakis is a local poet, and an active part of the experimental writing scene we’ve got going on here. His book is a collection of quotes, prose, and poetry, which ranges from mildly associative to the big ol’ clusterfuck shown at the top of this post, a sample of one of the weirder ‘poems’ from the book. Party Volcano downgraded this one to cold lava, but I think as a reading, it should be pretty interesting.

Full readings listings, including the next week or so, here.