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THURSDAY
Controversial firebrand Ishmael Reed and poet Garrett Hongo read their poetry at the Library of Congress. Both men are versatile, writing fiction, memoirs, and essays as well as poetry. Long a champion of Asian-American literature, Hongo has edited The Open Boat, an anthology of poetry, and has recently published memoirs of his childhood as a Japanese-American in Hawaii. Reed, who has over a dozen books to his credit, has a reputation for irreverent satire and obsessively attacking anything that’s PC, especially feminists. At 6:45 p.m. at the Library of Congress, James Madison Building’s Mumford Room, 1st & Independence Ave. SE. FREE. (202) 707-5394.