Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong comes to the Cambridge Public Library on Monday – online – for a conversation with Harvard’s Courtney Sato about her “Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning.”

Small casts and big ideas are asked for plays submitted for the 2019 Somerville Theatre Festival, which goes live in April with the theme of “human rights.”

Fifteen squares of sidewalk citywide have already been impressed with the short works of Cambridge poets, and more indelible words will be selected between Tuesday and March 20 in the city’s fourth annual Sidewalk Poetry Contest.

Janice Zarro Brodman has been collecting tidbits about strange cultural practices – strange to us, anyway – since her time at Harvard, and has just published them as “Sex Rules! Astonishing Sexual Practices and Gender Roles Around the World.”

Jeffrey Eugenides reads from “Fresh Complaint”; The Future Arts Festival; Strindberg’s “The Ghost Sonata”; Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands; and 39th Annual Oktoberfest.

Cambridge held about one-third of roughly 350 countercultural organizations and businesses in 1970s-era Greater Boston, and Inman Square was home to about a dozen on its own. Author Tim Devin will reveal them Saturday during a free walking tour.

Four-day Campfire. Festival at Club Passim; Dire Literary Series with Himes, Salisbury and Page; Harvard Square Ghost Tours; Bread & Puppet Theatre’s “Our Domestic Insurrection Circus”; and Toni Bee at the Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam & Slam.

Dire Literary Series reading; “Fingersmith”; Philharmonic Funk presents “Under the Cherry Moon”; the No-Pants Subway Ride; and the silent Film “Metropolis” with live music.

Quilt and Widowspeak with opener Doug Tuttle; The Festival of Us & You & We & Them; Summer Readings (and screenings and writing); Dan Boulger comedy album release show; and the Cambridge Symphony’s Pops on the Lawn.

Gender equality advocate Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of “Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family,” implored a sold-out Brattle Theatre audience this week to stop upholding breadwinning over caregiving.