The Hugo House has a lot going on today. During the day, they're hosting a workshop titled The Art & Craft of Travel Writing. This is a workshop about how to travel and then write about it and thusly get paid to travel. My advice is: Don't get your hopes up. In the evening, it's time for Cheap Wine and Poetry, a reading series where people read poetry and wine costs a dollar a glass. There'll be a suggests popping up for this very soon.

Speaking of poetry, Daniel Comiskey and C.E. Putnam read at the Seattle Public Library from a poetry book I was not so crazy about. But they're both great readers and this reading should be entertaining. Up at Open Books, Peter Ludwin and Michael Spence read. Ludwin's collection of poetry about the Southwest and Mexico is titled A Guest in All Your Houses. Spence's book of poetry about men and fathers and sons is titled Crush Depth. And in the final poetry-related event of the evening, John Felstiner reads at Elliott Bay Book Company from Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems. I hate this title with a passion that startles even myself.

Speaking of saving the Earth, at the Secret Garden Bookshop in Ballard, Jennifer Worick reads from Backcountry Betty: Crafting with Style, a supposedly "hip" craft book about "sustainable projects made from outdoor flotsam." And at Third Place Books, Earl Emerson reads from his newest Seattle-y mystery, Cape Disappointment.

The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here.