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Published 3:26 pm Thursday, November 13, 2008

Rhyme and reason: The Edmonds Bookshop hosts three award-winning poets for a reading at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jack McCarthy, Martha Silano and Joannie K. Stangeland.

McCarthy, a self-described “standup poetry guy,” is longtime poetry slammer and the author of several collections including “Actual Grace Notes” and “Too Old to Make Excuses (But Still Young Enough to Make Love)” and “Say Goodnight, Grace Notes.”

Silano has written two anthologies, “Blue Positive” and “What the Truth Tastes Like,” and won many poetry awards.

Stangeland’s collections include “Weathered Steps” and “A Steady Longing for Flight.” Her work has appeared in several publications, and if you ride Seattle Metro buses, look up: You can read excerpts on the bus posters.

Edmonds Bookshop is at 111 Fifth Ave. S., Edmonds. Call 425-775-2789 for more information.

Movie week: The Everett Public Library and Everett Community College is presenting a free weeklong film discussion series, “Philosophy in the Dark,” at the library, 2702 Hoyt Ave., Everett. Call 425-257-8000.

Each discussion will be illustrated by scenes from movies, both classic and current. Here’s the week’s lineup:

6 to 9 p.m. Monday: Joel Martinez of Lewis and Clark College discusses ethics using the 1989 Woody Allen film “Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday: Holly Phillips, a professor emeritus from Whitman College, lectures on truth and justification in the 1957 Sidney Lumet film “12 Angry Men.”

6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday:EvCC instructor Jeffrey Hipolito addresses postmodernism and the Marc Forster film “Stranger Than Fiction.”

3 to 6 p.m. Friday: Helen Harrison, a Central Washington University professor, investigates the mind and time travel in Terry Gilliam’s “Twelve Monkeys.”

3 to 6 p.m. Saturday: University of British Columbia professor Anita Ho discusses “human identity and determinism” in Andrew Niccol’s “Gattaca.”

Herald staff