Popular gardening writer and author of Thrifty: Living the Frugal Life with Style Marjorie Harris is calling all gardeners, frugal or otherwise, to the Grano Ristorante (2035 Yonge Street) on Monday night for a special event to raise money for the Toronto Botanical Garden. Harris will be joined by friends from the writing and gardening community for an evening that includes healthy samples from the restaurant’s Italian kitchen and wine cellar as well as a free copy of Thrifty. The evening gets underway at 6 p.m.. Tickets are $100 each, which includes a $35 receipted donation to the Botanical Garden, and are available at (416) 361-0032.
On Tuesday night the Artbar Poetry Series at Clinton’s (693 Bloor Street West) welcomes poets Maureen Hynes, Brian Day, and Yogi to the stage. The rhyming and free-versing get going at 8 p.m. and are followed by an open mic session (PWYC). Up at York University (4700 Keele Street, Accolade West Building, Room 206) the Canadian Writers in Person series showcases fiction author Nitin Deckha at 7 p.m. (FREE).
The Authors at Harbourfront Centre series (235 Queens Quay West) continues on Wednesday night with authors Drew Hayden Taylor, Horacio Castellanos Moya, and Patrick Taylor taking the stage. As an added bonus, the event will be hosted by yours truly. Tickets are $8, or free to members, and the event begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Brigantine Room. For our profile of Authors at Harbourfront Centre go here. The Pivot Readings continue in the usual 8 p.m. slot at the Press Club (850 Dundas Street West), with prose writer David Derry joined by poets Angela Rawlings Zachariah Wells (PWYC), while the (In)side the Veins poetry open mic and workshop also gets started at 8 p.m. at Culturshoc (1205 Queen Street West, FREE).
Young-adult author Jodi Picoult discusses and reads from her work on Thursday night at 7 p.m. at the Indigo store near Yorkville (55 Bloor Street West). And at Ben McNally Books (366 Bay Street), biographer J.A. Wainwright launches his new book, Blazing Figures: A Life of Robert Markle, at 6:30 p.m.. For Books@Torontoist’s profile of Ben McNally Books go here.
