Three good events on Thursday, April 8: Poet and 2002 ...

d events on Thursday, April 8: Poet and 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Dennis shares the mic with Marie Ponsot at 8:15 at the 92nd Street Y for $16, while over at the Barnes & Noble on 82nd Street Chang-rae Lee reads from his latest book, Aloft, at 7:30 (Like all B&N readings, it's free). A half hour earlier at the New School, at 7, poet and Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts Dana Gioia will be talking with David Lehman-five dollars at the door.

Monday, April 12 sees the next installment of the "Reading between A and B" series at the 11th Street Bar. This week, it's Non-Fiction Night, and author of Chasing the Sea Tom Bissell will regale the audience with adventure stories from Central Asia. Julian Rubinstein and Lisa Wood Shapiro will also be at the free reading, starting at 8.

On April 13, Maggie Estep and Amanda Stern read at the Cupcake series at Lolita at 7:30. It's free, but you know you're gonna drink, so it all equals out in the end. At 7, Arianna Huffington reads from her new book, Fanatics & Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America at the Barnes & Noble Union Square.

If you like your readings with a side of screechy politics and DJ music, hit Monday's How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office book party. The Joe's Pub event is sponsored by the League of Pissed-Off Voters. Expect Richard Clarke, Air America and John Kerry to be discussed ad nauseum.

Busy night, April 13. Barbes, in beautiful Park Slope, hosts Nelly Reifler's second biannual one-page story fest with Darin Strauss, David Hollander, Gina Zucker and Albert Mobilio. It starts at 7 and it's free.

Tuesday night is ground zero for quips like, "If all the girls in attendance were laid end to end, I, wouldn't be surprised." Dorothy Parker biographer Marion Meade is holding court at the General Society Library at 6. It's $15, ($5 for students), but the viciousness of this circle will be priceless.

Finally, author and professor Jane Mansbridge asks the eternal question, "Everyday Feminism: Or Can Foucault, Dewey, Habermas, and Fraser All Be Wrong?" at the New School on the 13th at 4.

92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. (92nd St.), 212-415-5500; Barnes & Noble, 2289 Broadway (82nd St.), 212-362-8835; The New School, 66 W. 12th St. (5th Ave.), 212-229-5488; 11th Street Bar, 510 E. 11th St., (betw. Aves A & B), 212-982-3929; Lolita, 266 Broome St. (Allen St.), 212-966-7223; Barnes & Noble, Union Square, 33 E. 17th St. (betw. Park Ave. S. & B'way), 212-253-0810; Barbes, 376 9th St. (6th Ave.) Park Slope, 718-965-9177; General Society Library, 20 W. 44th St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-840-1841; The New School, Wolff Conference Room 229, 65 5th Ave. (betw. 13th & 14th Sts.), 212-229-5710.