Dance, eat and play with words at the annual benefit for Coffee House Press, one of several nonprofit literary presses in the Twin Cities. The event, called One for the Books, will take place from 7 to 10 p.m. April 28 in the atrium of the Grain Belt Bottling Building in Minneapolis. (Address: 79 13th Av. NE., Suite 110.)

Poet and translator Ron Padgett ("How to Be Perfect," "You Never Know," "Oklahoma Tough") will read, and the jazz band Fat Kid Wednesdays will play, and you will dance, and there will be a giant Magnetic Poetry Wall to play with, as well as appetizers and a silent auction.

Tickets are $40 and are available online at www.coffeehouse press.org/support/annual-benefit/.

Also...

•A poem by St. Paul's Patricia Kirkpatrick has been included in an anthology edited by Caroline Kennedy and published this month by Voice, an imprint of Hyperion. "At the Cafe," from Kirkpatrick's collection "Century's Road" (Holy Cow! Press 2004), is in "She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems." Kirkpatrick, a professor at Hamline University, is poetry editor of Water-Stone Review.

•Carolrhoda Lab, the new(ish) teen book division of Lerner Publications in Minneapolis, has a dark and impressive lineup for fall, including "Brooklyn, Burning," by St. Paul author Steve Brezenoff. Brezenoff is the author of a number of books for kids and young adults, including "The Absolute Value of -1."

•"The Last Day of Kindergarten," by Prior Lake author Nancy Loewen, has been published by Mashall Cavendish. Loewen has published more than 100 books for children, mostly for the educational market. Her new book is her first trade picture book.

•John Sandford's latest "Prey" book is due in May from Putnam. "Buried Prey," the 21st in the series, brings back Lucas Davenport, who is on the case of two plastic-wrapped bodies found during a house demolition. John Sandford is the pen name of John Camp, who lives in Stillwater.

•St. Paul in 1917 is the setting for Larry Millett's latest Shadwell Rafferty mystery, "The Magic Bullet," which includes a guest appearance by Sherlock Holmes. He'll launch the book -- published by the University of Minnesota Press -- at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Once Upon a Crime, 604 W. 26th St., Mpls., and do a reading at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Common Good Books, 165 N. Western Av., St. Paul.