A party to celebrate the winners and finalists of the Washington State Book Awards will be held from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 3.This event is open to the public and free of charge. Light refreshments will be served.The celebration is sponsored by The Seattle Public Library Foundation and Richard Hugo House.RSVP on

Castalia is back!Our alumni readers will be James Arthur, who graduated from UW in '03 and whose debut poetry collection, "Charms against Lightning", is forthcoming in October from Copper Canyon Press  and Elissa Washuta '09, whose memoir "My Body is a Book of Rules" will be out in 2014 from Red Hen Press.Castalia is a monthly reading series

Richard Hugo House and SPLAB team up to present the Seattle micro-event of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, a global event with nearly 700 events planned in 115 countries bringing poets together to call for environmental, social and political change.The afternoon will include a marathon of readings from dozens of local poets including Kelli Russell