Can't Miss It: Thursday
OLD SCHOOL: Cass Dalglish, a poet and professor at Augsburg College, isn't content with just any project. While many a writer slumming in academia to pay the bills is content to translate their favorite obscure French poet, Dalglish has gone back to very dawn of human history itself: her new collection, Humming the Blues, features translations by the first poet to sign her work, Enheduanna, a poet/priestess/princess from the realm of Ur, near modern-day Baghdad, around 2350 B.C.E. Dalglish will be joined by local poets Kathleen Alcalá, Jane Alynn, and Bethany Reid, contributors to the pioneering lit-mag Calyx.
7:30 // Elliott Bay Books, 101 S. Main St. // free
MORE OLD SKOOL: Candlebox? Really? Second-tier Seattle grunge rockers Candlebox take the stage tonight at Neumo's to re-live the glory days of angst-ridden hard rock.
8 p.m. // Neumo's, 925 Pike St. // $25, 21+
HAPPY MARRIAGES: Dr. John Gottman knows good marriages and bad marriages. Now, he's already said a lot about them in his best-selling book The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work, and he has an institute named after him, but he's still willing to give (for $30 at the door): Tonight, Gottman appears at Town Hall with his presentation "Making Marriage Work."
7 p.m. // 1119 Eighth Ave. // $25 adv./$30 at the door
ROCKIN' WAITERS: The second annual Seattle Soundbite is tonight at Showbox SoDo--thirteen restaurants provide food and support for six bands whose members pay the bills working the kitchens, slopping the garbage, and pouring the drinks, all in support of the Vera Project and ProStart.
6 p.m. doors // 1700 First Ave. S. // $15, 21+
