Poetry
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MUSING ON MICHAUX Poet Gillian Conoley presents a talk on travel writer and artist Henri Michaux, who wrote such travelogues as “Ecuador” and “A Barbarian in Asia.” His wife accidentally burned herself to death in 1948, influencing Michaux’s writing until his death in 1984. Tonight, 7 p.m., Poets House, 72 Spring St., between Broadway and Lafayette Street, 212-431-7920, free.