Open mic hosted by Phil Taggart, Ventura County Poet Laureate, EP Foster Library, Topping Room, 651 E. Main Street, Ventura, free, 7:30 (www.vencolibrary.org)
Poetry reading by Joseph Stroud, Of This World: New and Selected Poems, recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the Library of Congress's Witter Bynner Fellowship, and Marsha de la O, Antidote for Night, BOA Editions' Isabella Gardner Prize-winner, open mic to follow, hosted by Phil Taggart, Ventura County Poet Laureate, EP Foster Library, Topping Room, 651 E. Main Street, Ventura, free, 7:30 (www.vencolibrary.org)
Jackson Wheeler Poetry Series presents a reading by Crystal Salas, whose poems appear in publications such as The Acentos Review and LA Magazine, Scott Noon Creley, Digging a Hole to the Moon: New & Selected Poetry, Olga Garcia Echeverria, Falling Angels: Cuentos y Poemas, and a CSU Channel Islands student poet, hosted by Marsha de la O, sponsored by Carnegie Art Cornerstones and Friends of the Oxnard Public Library, Oxnard Public Library, 251 South 'A' Street, Oxnard, $5 donation, 3:00 (805/385-7500, www.carnegieartcornerstones.com)