A few literary morsels are on the table this week before the Thanksgiving hiatus, so grab a chair.

Writer and Mountaineer raconteur Chuck Kinder headlines the season finale of The New Yinzer's reading series. He joins fellow scribes Brendan Kerr and Karl Hendricks for a program of story swapping.

Music will be provided by Scott Silsbe, Kurt Garrison and Mark Mangini.

The program begins at 8 p.m. at Modern Formations Gallery, 4919 Penn Ave., Garfield. There's a $5 cover at the door.

• Jimmy Santiago Baca, one of America's major minority voices in poetry and memoir, reads at Chatham University's Mellon Board Room at 8 p.m.

Baca has won the National Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize and an American Book Award for such books as "Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande," "Black Mesa Poems" and "Immigrants in Our Own Land."

The event is free and open to all.

• The Greater Pittsburgh chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union honors the Bill of Rights with a poetry reading in the Adamson Wing of Baker Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, at 7 p.m.

On the platform are:

Ed Ochester, Romella Kitchens, Molly Bain, Madeline Barnes, Robert Gibb, Heather McNaugher, Liane Ellison Norman, Rosaly DeMaios Roffman, Michael Simms and Justin Vicari. Joan E. Bauer is the host.

Cost is $20 benefiting the ACLU. Reservations: 412-681-7736.

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