I knew that those Barnes and Noble author events were missing something, and now, thanks to the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Poetry Society of America, I know what it is: beer.

Those two groups host a series of readings called Poems & Pints; the fourth installment is February 3. Appearing will be Dana Goodyear, senior editor and contributor at The New Yorker, and Matthew Zapruder, founder and editor-in-chief of Wave Books whose work has also appeared in The New Yorker.

The reading will be on Tuesday, February 3, at 6:30 pm at the Fraunces Tavern, Nichols Room, 54 Pearl Street (at Broad Street). Entry costs nothing! (Presumably the same is not true of the beers.)
—Martin Schneider