Can't Miss It: Monday

POETRY: Eavan Boland is from Dublin, Ireland, and we take it that "Eavan" is a girl's name there. It's not immediately obvious, it it? She carries more of a charge in her than that boggy, peaty, old Seamus Heaney. One of her poems, The Pomegranate, begins:

The only legend I have ever loved is
the story of a daughter lost in hell.
And found and rescued there.
Love and blackmail are the gist of it.

Tonight she's speaking as part of Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series, and it is likely to be an event that people who are there will return from contented with their choice.

7:30pm // Intiman Theatre, 201 Mercer St // Tickets: $20 general, $10 under 25

FILM: The Northwest Film Forum is showing a new 35mm print of Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters, which we have long avoided as one of his "serious" films. But we may need to revisit that decision--it did win him as Oscar for Best Screenplay, after all, and Roger Ebert called it the best film Allen's ever made. NWFF describes the plot like so:

A series of marital misunderstandings and emotional complications mushroom as Hannah (Mia Farrow) and sisters (Barbara Hershey and Dianne Wiest) tangle with mates, parents and friends over the course of two years, beginning and ending at family Thanksgiving dinners.

7 & 9pm // Northwest Film Forum // Tickets: $8.50 general, $6 students/seniors

ART: Print! Seattle Print Arts 3rd Biennial Juried Exhibition is nearing the end of its run in the City Hall galleries. If you haven't stopped by, get on it. The Tacoma Weekly (there's a Tacoma Weekly?) provides some helpful details:

For this third biennial, SPA chose Sarah Suzuki, a curator of prints at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

It was Suzuki’s task to sift through the submissions of 78 artists and to choose 45 pieces by 25 artists in order to assemble the show. "In the end," Suzuki stated, "thematic strands guided the choice of works in an effort to make a cohesive exhibition that still demonstrates the wide variety of techniques and approaches to the medium."

But don't take her word for it! Go see for yourself the works chosen via these thematic strands, including this wood block print by Viza Arlington.

7am-6pmpm // City Hall Lobby Gallery & Anne Focke Gallery, 600 4th Ave // FREE

The listed events were chosen by the editors of Seattlest and brought to you by the 2009 Toyota Corolla.