READINGS Wednesday 5/23 YOGI BERRA Proper respect must be ...

YOGI BERRA

Proper respect must be given to the Hall of Famer, philosopher & marketing genius as Yogi reads from his latest, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!, today at Midtown Barnes & Noble, 600 5th Ave. (48th St.), 212-765-0592; 12:30, free.

ON THE WALL FICTION MFA types read; Cornelia St. Cafe, 29 Cornelia St. (6th Ave.), 212-989-9319; 6, free.

SOMEBODY TOLD ME TO READ THIS Derek Bacharach, Ernest Hood, Karen Miller & Eddie Rosenthal; New Century Artists, 158 Mercer St. (Houston St.), 212-431-5353; 7:30, free.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT SERIES AT THE POETRY PROJECT Wang Ping & Lewis Warsh, two novelists/poets stop by; St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th St. (2nd Ave.), 212-674-0910; 8, call for price.

Friday 5/25

PAUL COLLINS, JOHN GRIESEMER

McSweeneys represents & author of No One Thinks of Greenland reads; Housing Works Used Book Café, 126 Crosby St. (betw. Houston & Lafayette Sts.), 212-334-3324; 7, call for price.

PINK PONY WEST Open mic plus Gertrude Morris; Cornelia St. Café, 29 Cornelia St. (6th Ave.), 212-989-9319; 6, $6, incl. 1 free drink.

Saturday 5/26

YICTOVE HOSTS EVENINGS AT THE KNITTING FACTORY

Open mic; 74 Leonard St. (betw. B'way & Church St.), 212-219-3006; 6, $5.

Sunday 5/27

UNNAMABLE POETRY READING

Steve Bennett & David Speer host open mic at Baggot Inn, 82 W. 3rd St. (betw. Thompson & Sullivan Sts.), 212-477-0622; 3, $5, incl. 1 drink.

Monday 5/28

LOUDER JAMS

Spoken word, open mic & DJ Frank Rempe; 13 Bar/Lounge, 35 E. 13th St. (betw. B'way & University Pl.), 212-979-6677; 7, $5, $4 st.

Tuesday 5/29

SEAMUS HEANEY

Nobel Prize-winning poet, recently of Beowulf fame, begins two-night stand at Alice Tully Hall, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, B'way (65th St.), 212-721-6500; 8, $25 [through 5/30].

ADRIANA TRIGIANI Author of Big Stone Gap (about a Virginia town) reads from the sequel, Big Cherry Holler; Three Lives & Co., 154 W. 10th St. (Waverly Pl.), 212-741-2069; 7, free.