Weds., April 21: Journalist, adventurer and writer Alma Guillermoprieto reads ...

ril 21: Journalist, adventurer and writer Alma Guillermoprieto reads from her Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution at the Chelsea Barnes & Noble (7, free). If you want to keep it closer to home, Greg Williams will be at Rocky Sullivan's, reading from his book Boomtown, set in those long-forgotten days between Y2K and 9/11 (8, free). There's also the reliable Happy Ending Reading Series every Wednesday. This week it's Rebecca Godfrey, Bliss Broyard and Coleman Hough reading, with music from Whitney Pastorek at Happy Ending Bar (8, free).

Thurs., April 22: Have an internal debate about the proper use of the word "Brechtian" while listening to the poetry of Bertolt Brecht as read by Michael Hofmann, Anselm Hollo, Geoffrey O'Brien and Sonia Sanchez at the Poets House (7, $7). A little less heady, the same night, poet Kenneth Koch introduces his "collection of poetry comics" The Art of the Possible: Comics Mainly Without Pictures at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery (6, free, res. req).

Sun., April 25: Leonard Lopate moderates How and Why the Press Shapes the News, a discussion with Michael Wolff, Bob Schieffer, Paul Waldman and Brooke Gladstone, at the 92nd St. Y (7:30, $25). Sunday also brings a decidedly more granola affair as Naropa University & the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics celebrate the school's (and we use that term loosely) 30th anniversary at the Bowery Poetry Club (3, $3).

Mon., April 26: That guy who wrote the little book that became that little movie, The Hours, Michael Cunningham, and everyone's favorite novelist/Brooklyn mom Jhumpa Lahiri, author of The Interpreter of Maladies, read at the 92nd St. Y (8, $16).

Tues., April 27: Who knew that the alcoholic/abusive file clerk Herman Melville wrote poetry? Melville scholars John Bryant and Jack Putnam did, as they're reading it at the South Street Seaport (7, free). If 19th-century unpublished poetry isn't your thing, the same night over at KGB Bar are Luc Sante, author of Low Life and authority on all things seedy, and journalist and author of Blown Away: American Women and Guns, Caitlin Kelly (7, free).

Barnes & Noble 675 6th Ave. (22nd St.), 212-727-1227; Rocky Sullivan's, 129 Lexington Ave. (betw. 28th & 29th Sts.), 212-725-3871; Happy Ending, 302 Broome St. (Forsyth St.), 212-334-9676; Poets House, 72 Spring St., 2nd fl. (betw. Crosby & Lafayette Sts.), 212-431-7920; Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 724 5th Ave., 12th fl. (betw. 56th & 57th Sts.), 212-262-5050; 92nd Street Y at Lexington Ave., Kaufmann Concert Hall, 212-415-5500; Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (betw. Bleecker & Houston Sts.), 212-614-0505; Melville Gallery, 213 Water St. (betw. Fulton & Beekman Sts.), 212-748-8600; KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St., (betw. 2nd Ave. & Bowery), 212-505-3360.