Otherwise Poetry at Churchill is hosting two special readers this Saturday, Jack Wheatcroft, a World War II veteran and the author of 20 books who has served on the Pulitizer Prize judging committee for poetry, and Bob Braile, a journalist who covered international and national environmental issues for the Boston Globe.

The event is free and starts at 7 p.m. in the coffee shop on High Street in Pottstown.

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If you like a little controversy in your pasttimes, you can listen to Dr. Jack Kevorkian speak at Kutztown University on Sept. 20.

Kevorkian is speaking as part of the university's Distinguished Speaker Series on Law and Justice at 7 p.m. in the Schaeffer Auditorium. Unfortunately the speech is sold out. But you can watch it on channel 41 on the Hometown Utilicom channel in Berks County. Kutztown is also promising to have an audio file of Kevorkian's speech on its Web site at a later date.

Kevorkian's theme? Civil Rights, Civil Disobedience and Criminal Justice.

For the uninformed, Kevorkian is most notable for assisting terminally ill patients to end their lives and speaking out on the "Right to Die" issue.