ARTIFACTS: Minarets among us, poetry in abundance, a virtual art gallery.

Photojournalist Phil Pasquini presents his book Domes, Arches and Minarets: A History of Islamic-Inspired Buildings in America at the Monterey Peace and Justice Center in Seaside 4pm Saturday. It covers 200 years, from early Spanish-Moor buildings to more contemporary stuff, from Samuel Sloan to Frank Lloyd Wright. Can you name an early Spanish-Moor style building in Monterey? Anyone, anyone? A: Golden State Theatre. 899-7322.

The Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium presents a poetry reading by George Lober and Sally Ashton 2pm Sunday at Old Capitol Books. FYI, Lober was a Seaside High School writing teacher of mine. One day he came into class, sat down, and recited the words to The Beatles’ “I Am the Walrus” – even the “cuckoo-ca-choo” part. He was cool like that. 601-9195.

Monterey Places is an exhibition of Monterey County landscape paintings by local and regional artists who have immortalized a piece of this place. It’s showing now at Monterey Museum of Art-Pacific, but it also comes with a newly launched website component, created by artist and CSUMB professor (and my wife) Enid Baxter Ryce and website designerJenny Conte, that links the paintings in the museum with the actual places in the real world. So you can go to the museum and see the Works Progress Administration’s study for the Cannery Row mural “Net Menders,” then pull up the website on your mobile phone, scroll through thumbnails until you find it, click to enlarge the image, read a blurb about the painting (“now on view in the restaurant of the Monterey Bay Aquarium”) and see a Google map with a pushpin at the site depicted in the painting. Then you can go there and see what it looks like today. Life imitating art. Try it at www.montereyart.org/montereyplaces. 372-5477.

Old Capitol Books is not done with you and poetry. Introducing Victor Henry. He is a reference librarian at the Monterey Public Library. From 1967-68, though, he was a soldier assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam. He’s since become a member of Veterans for Peace and the poet/author of What They Wanted, prose poems published last year on Nov. 11 – Veterans Day. Networking Aloud brings Henry to Old Capitol Books 6pm Tuesday to speak on the “surrealistic qualities of war, its undercurrents, and how American G.I.s were really fighting for each other.” He will recite 15 minutes first, then the mic is opened to any and all to get 7 minutes to read whatever they want. 601-9195.