NOTES FROM THE MARGIN

Calling all type-A planners: Words is currently compiling events for its fall arts calendar. Please send any confirmed literary events for the months of September, October and November—including date, time, venue and pricing information—to words@wweek.com by July 24 to be considered for inclusion.

Calling all creatures of habit: Words is compiling a comprehensive guide to the regular literary events in town. If you've never been listed before or think your event is too offbeat, we want to hear from you. Please send information on those regularly occurring word-nerd goings-on to words@wweek.com.

THURSDAY JULY 20

Winona LaDuke

The activist and former vice-presidential candidate for the Green Party will give a lecture, "Building a Post-Petroleum Economy through Indigenous Knowledge, Multicultural Democracy and Renewable Energy." See news Q&A, page 18. Kridel Grand Ballroom, Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973. 6:30 pm. $10.

Live Wire!

Yet another full bill for the live variety show: stand-up comedians Michael Showalter, Eugene Mirman and Leo Allen; Maria Dahvana Headley, author of The Year of Yes; Scott Poole, freelance poet and former director of Wordstock; and Oregon's Poet Laureate, Lawson Inada. With music by Norfolk & Western. And sketch comedy. And, with any luck, bathroom breaks. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 233-1994. 7 pm. $10 advance, $12 at the door. Showalter, Mirman and Allen also perform later the same evening at Dante's, 1 SW 3rd Ave., 226-6630. 9:30 pm. $5. 21+. Also see music listing, page 35.

Scott Nadelson and Poe Ballantine

Hawthorne Books, a local publisher, presents the authors of two recent releases: Nadelson reads from his collection of short stories, The Cantor's Daughter, and Ballantine, an Oregon Book Award winner, reads from his follow-up to God Clobbers Us All, titled The Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire. Powell's on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 238-1668. 7:30 pm. Free. Also see related music listing for Iretsu, page 35.

The End of Reality

I'll admit it: I'm screwed. Everything on Thursday sounds pretty sweet, especially the release party for Chiasmus Press' third anthology of fiction and film, Northwest Edge III: The End of Reality. Not only with there will be readings, screenings and music by O'Grady and Party Killer, but this event also boasts "booze, food, and tipsy people with interesting hair." For more information and a complete list of presenters, please visit chiasmusmedia.net. Disjecta, 230 E Burnside St., 913-6884. 8 pm. $5. 21+.

FRIDAY JULY 21

Poetry NW Happy Hour

Mingle with the literati! Get tips on publishing! Meet other people with more than two brain cells! Do body shots off of Seamus Heaney! Have a conversation with someone! You get the idea. Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont St., 595-0575. 5 pm. Free. 21+.

MONDAY JULY 24

Brian Doyle

Doyle, who edits the University of Portland's magazine, Portland, and is the author of several books, most recently The Grail, will not lecture on the crumbling postmodern aesthetic of Fabio's graying chest hair. Presented by Oregon Writers Colony. Powell's in Beaverton, 8725 SW Cascade Ave., 643-3131. 7 pm. Free.

Maryann Carver

Carver reads from What It Used to Be Like, her memoir of being married to one of the 20th century's great realist short-story writers, Raymond Carver. Powell's City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

Diet Soap Reading Series

The inaugural night of the series will feature the comedy of Jim Farris, music by Ryan Dolliver and a reading by Douglas Lain, author of Last Week's Apocalypse (see review, below). Red & Black Cafe, 2138 SE Division St., 231-3899. 8 pm. Sliding-scale donations to benefit Veterans for Peace. Free.